Wedding in 1999, empire in 2024: David and Victoria Beckham

When they married on 4 July 1999, David Beckham and Victoria Adams were already popular, he as a footballer and she as a singer of the ‘Spice Girls’. 25 years later, they are not only still famous, but they are one of the most powerful couples in the world of celebrities.

They have a joint fortune of $575 million, according to The Times’ list of billionaires, and have managed to position themselves in the business world, he through sports investments and she by focusing on her fashion brand.

A solid relationship that overcame an alleged infidelity of the former footballer with his personal assistant Rebecca Loos during his time at Real Madrid (2003-2004), a time of unhappiness for Victoria, as she recounted in a Netflix documentary released last year.

But the couple has never admitted to Beckham’s mistake or to others that were reported in the tabloids, nor have they responded to the latest rumours regarding an alleged separation, a theory supported by journalist Tom Boyer in a recently published book, ‘The House of Beckham’.

It is based on the fact that David spends more and more time in Miami, where the Inter Miami team is based, of which he is president, while Victoria divides her time between London and New York, due to her commitments with her fashion and beauty brands.

Private birthday

Unaware of the rumours, the couple celebrated Victoria’s 50th birthday last April with a big party in London, which even included a reunion of the Spice Girls, who sang one of their best-known songs – ‘Stop’ – a moment that David immortalised in a video he posted on his Instagram account and which received almost a million ‘likes’.

“Best night ever!” the former singer said on her social networks, where she regularly posts happy images with her husband and four children – Brooklyn, Romeo, Cruz and Harper Seven.

A family that began with the birth of Brooklyn four months before his parents’ wedding, which took place on July 4, 1999 when David was 24 and Victoria, 25.

They were married at Luttrellswtown Castle, near Dublin, in front of some 300 guests, a celebration that cost almost 800 thousand dollars just for the rental of the space.

It was the ‘wedding of the year’, according to the British press, which reported on all the details of a party whose exclusive was sold to ‘OK!’ magazine for 1.2 million dollars, a record at the time.

The couple left nothing to chance and even matched their champagne-coloured outfits – hers a Vera Wang design – with a baroque aesthetic typical of the 1990s. Outfits they changed for equally simple purple ones, both matching Brooklyn’s attire.

“It seemed like a really good idea at the time,” Victoria Beckham said in an interview with Jimmy Fallon in 2021, in which she admitted that “it was naive” because they didn’t know anything regarding fashion and just wanted to have fun.

Evolution in fashion

These styles have gradually disappeared from the couple’s wardrobe, as over the years they have greatly refined their fashion tastes.

Only around thirty family and friends attended the ceremony itself, but the following-party was attended by many famous faces: Elton John, the rest of the Spice Girls – Geri Halliwell, Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton and Melanie Chisholm – and the entire Manchester United team, which the footballer was playing for at the time.

“My greatest achievement in life is my children, thank you @victoriabeckham for giving me these amazing people to love,” the former footballer recently said on his social networks.

And on the occasion of David’s birthday on May 2, his wife congratulated him with some loving words: “I love that we grow old together! You are not far from me!!!! You are our everything!!!! The best dad and husband.”

London / EFE