Victoria And David Just Transformed Buckingham Into “Beckingham” Palace

In 1999, Victoria and David Beckham purchased a £2.5million estate in Hertfordshire. The extravagance with which they renovated the place – including but not limited to superimposing their faces on Cinderella and Prince Charming in Disney-themed bedrooms – inspired the tabloid press to rename their country pile “Beckingham” palace. “It’s really camp,” Victoria was reported to have said at the time. “There’s a room like a tart’s boudoir, with leopard print everywhere and a mirrored ceiling.”

Victoria and David Beckham strolling through Buckingham Palace. WPA Pool/Getty Images

Buckingham Palace – and all its eccentric chinoiserie furnishings, priceless Winterhalter portraits and Carolean revival thrones – be damned. I wonder if the Beckhams weren’t mining the palace’s lavish interiors for inspiration when dining alongside the King and Queen at a state banquet last night. Victoria wore an hourglass gown of her own making while David decorated a classic tailcoat with his OBE medal. A long-awaited knighthood is surely in the pipeline for the man who once spent 12 hours queuing alongside the public to see the late Queen Elizabeth II lying in state in 2022.

Posh, Becks and King Charles in 2000. Ken Goff/Getty Images

The couple has, of course, brushed shoulders with the royals on several occasions. First as Posh and Becks in the late ’90s and early ’00s, and later to pick up their separate OBEs. Then along came invites to the Common Wealth Games, the respective weddings of Prince William and Prince Harry, and various charitable appearances in support of the Kings Trust, the London Air Ambulance and the Young Leader Awards.

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