He was the star attraction as the 70th annual UNICEF anniversary kicked off in New York City on Monday evening.

But as David Beckham greeted guests ahead of the celebratory event at the United Nations Headquarters attention was detracted by the glimmering piece of gold jewellery on his wedding finger.

The UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, 41, sported an unmistakably new ring, prompting speculation that wife Victoria Beckham has purchased the former footballer a second wedding band.

However, it turns out the item was a special gift to himself.

He purchased the open-link chain ring 18 karat rose gold with black diamonds from Hoorsenbuhs’s new gallery space in Soho, DailyMail.com has learned.

Victoria has changed her engagement band, traditionally a singular symbol of love, a staggering 13 times during their 17 year marriage – reportedly to the tune of £3.8million.

When David proposed in 1998, her first engagement ring was a diamond cut into an elongated ‘marquise’ shape, set on a yellow gold band, said to have cost around £65,000.

She later had the ring reset on a diamond studded band and in 2002 was seen wearing a simple diamond-encrusted band estimated at £5,000 the first of numerous costly changes.

While the ex-Spice Girl was absent on Monday evening, David was joined by the equally glamorous Priyanka Chopra, who struck a particularly chic figure among the famous names who’d gathered at the United Nations headquarters.

The 34-year-old posed alongside a besuited David, who presented her with Unicef Goodwill Ambassadorship during the evening’s festivities.

Pear-lined pleated short sleeves mirrored the pleated bottom section of her navy, hammered satin Prabal Gurung dress.

Tightening about her enviably slim torso, the bias-cut outfit featured a hem that’d been cut off high enough to showcase the Quantico star’s navy stilettos.

Meanwhile David, a Unicef Goodwill Ambassador since 2005, garnished his evening wear with a pin advertising the organisation, wearing a Polo Ralph Lauren navy and cream pinstripe suit.

The former Manchester United, Real Madrid and England midfielder’s pinstriped suit was a colour similar to that of the Baywatch actress’ dress, clashing against his white shirt.

Almost indiscernible green and pink patterns swirled about his Ralph Lauren Purple Label silk paisley tie, and his hair was slicked severely back.

Orlando Bloom, who become a Unicef Goodwill Ambassador in 2009, used a white pocket square as a pop of contrast against his dark suit.

The zaffre dress shirt the 39-year-old was wearing had a bit of sheen, and he’d spiked up his blonde hair.

Though his girlfriend Katy Perry became a Unicef Goodwill Ambassador three years ago, she didn’t appear to have accompanied him on Monday.

Glinting black dress shoes rounded out the The Lord Of The Rings actor’s ensemble, and he’d undone his top button, going without a tie.

Jackie Chan was made a Unicef Goodwill Ambassador 12 years ago, and looked almost like a priest, wearing a black Nehru-collared top over a white T-shirt.

Black-rimmed spectacles matched the 62-year-old’s slacks and shoes, and he squatted to be level with wheelchair-using Juan Carlos Morán Menjivar.

As a YouTube video uploaded by Unicef described, Menjivar lost his arms and legs when he stepped on a landmine buried during the Salvadoran Civil War.

UNICEF, as he recalled, enabled him to travel away from home in order to obtain prosthetic legs. He also underwent rehabilitation.

A committed painter, whom the video shows holding the brush between his teeth, he’s since married and graduated law school.

Inasmuch as UNICEF were billing the event as a ‘children’s takeover’ of the building, it was only fitting that Millie Bobby Brown should hostess the fête.

The 12-year-old arrived in a turtlenecked pale pink dress, embellished with pink, purple and green floral patterns and some rose-shaped black trim.

Whilst on the turquoise carpet, the Stranger Things star and and Bloom got in a bit of posing alongside Syrian refugee Mustafa Al Said.

Unicef have posted a YouTube video about the 14-year-old, noting the Mediterranean crossing he and his mother made to Greece.

His father in Iraq and one of his sisters still in Syria, the 14-year-old and his mother have since settled in the Bavarian town of Hof.

Not only did she take the blue and white podium, speaking solo, but her compere duties also involved sitting down to interview the erstwhile footballer.

She also had a chance to share a warm hug with Chopra, one of two Bollywood stars to become UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors (the other being Amitabh Bachchan).