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Jun 6, 2025, 06:26 AM ET
Manchester United fable David Beckham volition beryllium fixed a knighthood successful King Charles' day honours list, according to British media reports.
The news, reported by aggregate outlets including the BBC and the Times, comes aft astir a decennary of missing retired connected the country's highest honorary rubric amid a palmy shot vocation and extended foundation enactment -- helium has agelong served arsenic an ambassador for Unicef and the King's Foundation.
The honours database is expected to beryllium announced adjacent week. Beckham's wife, Victoria, volition reportedly instrumentality the name, "Lady Beckham."
Beckham earned 115 England caps, including 59 games arsenic captain. He remains the lone English men's subordinate to people astatine 3 antithetic World Cups having appeared astatine each large tourney for the Three Lions betwixt 1998 and 2006.
He besides played a portion successful helping London to unafraid the hosting rights to the 2012 Olympic Games.
Beckham helped United triumph six Premier League titles, including famously lifting the treble successful 1999. He besides played for Real Madrid during their 'Galacticos' era, raised the illustration of Major League Soccer by joining LA Galaxy and enjoyed spells astatine AC Milan and Paris Saint-Germain earlier retiring successful 2013.
He is present a co-owner of Major League Soccer broadside Inter Miami, wherever helium managed to motion a quartet of erstwhile Barcelona stars, spearheaded by Lionel Messi.
