Following the ceremony, the former Manchester United star officially became Sir David Beckham, while Victoria is now Lady Beckham.<\/p>\n
The honour comes more than two decades after David was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2003. Victoria celebrated the news in a post on social media, writing: \u201cYou\u2019ve always been my knight in shining armour, but now it\u2019s official. Sir David Beckham!! What an honour, I couldn\u2019t be prouder of you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speaking after the ceremony, David said he and the King spoke about fashion during their conversation.<\/p>\n
The ex-footballer said: \u201cHe was quite impressed with my suit.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s kind of the most elegantly dressed man that I know, so he inspired quite a few of my looks over the years, and he definitely inspired this look.\u201d<\/p>\n
Referring to his wife\u2019s design, David added: \u201cIt was something that my wife made me. I looked at old pictures of him when he was quite young in morning suits and I was like, okay, that\u2019s what I want to wear, so I gave it to my wife and she did it.\u201d<\/p>\n
In her recent three-part Netflix docuseries Victoria Beckham, the designer spoke candidly about the financial challenges she faced in her business and how David helped her through them.<\/p>\n
She said on the show: \u201cI almost lost everything, and that was a dark, dark time.<\/p>\n
\u201cI used to cry before I went to work every day because I felt like a firefighter. We were tens of millions in the red.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, I\u2019m going home to my husband, but I\u2019m going home to my business partner as well. And so I would talk to him about it. I had to. He was invested. And I hated it. I absolutely hated it.\u201d<\/p>\n
David said those conversations \u201cbroke\u201d his heart because Victoria is \u201ca proud woman\u201d.<\/p>\n
He recalled when they first met \u201cshe was a lot richer than me\u201d.<\/p>\n
David added: \u201cShe actually bought our first house in Hertfordshire, known as Beckingham Palace. So for her to have to come to me and say, \u2018Can I have some \u2013 we need some more money. The business needs more money\u2019, that was hard for both of us because I didn\u2019t have the money to keep doing this and eventually I was like, \u2018This cannot continue\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
Victoria later brought on businessman David Belhassen as a partner to help rescue the company.<\/p>\n
He initially declined the offer but later changed his mind, reportedly encouraged by his wife\u2019s fondness for the brand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the ceremony, the former Manchester United star officially became Sir David Beckham, while Victoria is now Lady…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[38017,168,6284,84100,8459,156,2082,83477,111,139,69,84101,10142,8485,6271,20838,2821,1842,102],"class_list":["post-119042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-beckham","tag-ceremony","tag-david","tag-davids","tag-designs","tag-entertainment","tag-for","tag-knighthood","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-outfit","tag-paid","tag-sir","tag-suit","tag-tribute","tag-victoria","tag-wife","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}