David and Victoria Beckham’s invitation to state banquet is ‘yet another sign friendship with Harry and Meghan is over’
David and Victoria Beckham’s invitation to their first state banquet is another sign their friendship with Prince Harry and Meghan is over, a royal expert said today.
The showbiz royalty were surprise attendees at Buckingham Palace last night as they joined the King and Queen for the glittering affair in honour of the Qatari ruler.
David has developed a strong bond with the Royal Family, recently becoming a celebrity ambassador for Charles’s charity The King’s Foundation – with fellow ambassador Sir Rod Stewart teasing him that his knighthood was ‘coming soon’.
The 49-year-old former Manchester United midfielder also met Charles at Highgrove in the spring. And David joined Prince William at RAF Northolt in October to celebrate breaking a £15million target to replace London’s ageing air ambulance helicopters.
Posh and Becks were also once friends with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and were among the celebrity guests attending their wedding at Windsor Castle in 2018.
But the Sussexes and Beckhams are believed to have fallen out after a spat dating back to that year, with Harry and Meghan allegedly accusing Victoria and David of leaking stories about them to the press – which the Beckhams denied.
Then it was claimed Charles had a private meeting with David at Highgrove in May to discuss The King’s Foundation while Harry was visiting the UK – after the Duke had claimed his father was too busy attending to ‘various other priorities’ to see him.
Today, royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams told MailOnline that the Beckhams had previously been friends with Harry and Meghan ‘going back over a decade’.
