David and Victoria Beckham split their time between England and Miami. We don’t know much about their life in Miami, but I’ve heard that David really enjoys his time there and he especially enjoys how much privacy he has in Miami. In the Netflix Beckham series, whenever we saw glimpses of David and Victoria’s home life, it was at their English country home, where David putters around the house, cleaning, cooking and grilling. In David’s now-successful quest for a knighthood, he also embraced even more country-life passions, like beekeeping and gardening. David even dutifully gave King Charles a jar of Beckham honey at an event a while ago. So, just days after David’s knighthood was announced, we’re getting this news: David will guest-edit an issue of Country Life.
It was only last month that David Beckham charmed the King through his love of gardening. And now he will continue to put his green thumb to use as the former footballer is announced as the latest star to guest edit Country Life Magazine. The father-of-four, who is tipped for a knighthood in the King’s birthday honours list, is known for being a staunch royalist and has swapped the football pitch for the countryside in recent years.
The one-off edition is said to feature Beckham’s best-loved recipe, as well as his rural champions, and the craftsmen and women who have helped to shape his home in the Cotswolds, together with an insight into how the countryside has come to play an increasingly important role in his life.
King Charles has twice guest-edited Country Life to mark his 65th birthday in November 2013 and his 70th in 2018 when he was the Prince of Wales. In 2020, the Princess Royal masterminded a special issue to commemorate her 70th birthday, while the Queen, then the Duchess of Cornwall, took the editorial reins in 2022 to mark her 75th birthday – and produced a record-breaking sell-out edition.
David Beckham said: ‘I am honoured to have been invited to guest edit an edition of a magazine that I have always admired and read. I am really looking forward to working with the editorial team to produce an issue that will celebrate what the countryside and the great British landscape means to me and my family.’
David, 50, and Victoria Beckham, 51, bought their £12m Cotswolds mansion in 2016 and he has since developed a love for beekeeping and growing vegetables. So proud of his work, Mr Beckham even presented the King with a jar of honey he harvested at home when the pair met at the British Fashion Council Foundation Impact Day 2023.
It will be fascinating to watch if, post-knighthood, David ends up jettisoning some of these “interests” now that he’s no longer desperately sucking up to the Windsors. Like, knighthood in hand, he just starts spending even more time in Miami, living it up. It probably won’t happen like that though – the significance of the knighthood for the Beckhams is that they’ll get to lord it over people in the UK. Arise, Sir Ass Kisser.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Cover Images.
-
- David Beckham offers King Charles III a jar of his own home produced honey, during a special industry showcase event hosted by the British Fashion Council (BFC) at 180 Studios, London. Picture date: Thursday May 18, 2023. PA Photo. Now in its sixth year, the Queen Elizabeth II Award for British Design recognises the role played by British design and fashion in the country’s culture and trade. See PA story ROYAL King. Photo credit should read: Jonathan,Image: 777043709, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Jonathan Brady / Avalon
-
- David Beckham offers King Charles III a jar of his own home produced honey, during a special industry showcase event hosted by the British Fashion Council (BFC) at 180 Studios, London. Picture date: Thursday May 18, 2023. Now in its sixth year, the Queen Elizabeth II Award for British Design recognises the role played by British design and fashion in the country’s culture and trade.,Image: 777089803, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Jonathan Brady / Avalon
-
- TETBURY, ENGLAND – FEBRUARY 07: David Beckham and Victoria Beckham during a dinner at Highgrove House on February 07, 2025 in Tetbury, England. The event will celebrate the values of Slow Food and Slow Fashion.,Image: 961205635, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Finnbarr Webster/Avalon
-
- Britain’s King Charles, patron of the Royal Horticultural Society, and Queen Camilla speak with businessman and retired football player David Beckham as they visit the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London, Great Britain, May 19, 2025.,Image: 1001047665, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Toby Melville/Avalon
-
- Britain’s King Charles, patron of the Royal Horticultural Society, and Queen Camilla speak with businessman and retired football player David Beckham as they visit the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London, Great Britain, May 19, 2025.,Image: 1001047678, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Toby Melville/Avalon
-
- Britain’s King Charles, patron of the Royal Horticultural Society, and Queen Camilla speak with businessman and retired football player David Beckham as they visit the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London, Great Britain, May 19, 2025.,Image: 1001047808, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Paul Grover/Avalon
-
- Britain’s King Charles, patron of the Royal Horticultural Society, and Queen Camilla speak with businessman and retired football player David Beckham as they visit the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London, Great Britain, May 19, 2025.,Image: 1001047930, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: Copyright Paul Grover, *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Paul Grover/Avalon
-
- Celebrities attend a dinner in celebration of Slow Food at King Charles III’s Gloucestershire estate, Highgrove Gardens Featuring: David Beckham, Victoria Beckham Where: Tetbury, United Kingdom When: 07 Feb 2025 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
-
- Celebrities attend a dinner in celebration of Slow Food at King Charles III’s Gloucestershire estate, Highgrove Gardens Featuring: King Charles III, David Beckham, Victoria Beckham Where: Tetbury, United Kingdom When: 07 Feb 2025 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
Wonder what his coat of arms and motto will be. I kiss arse, therefore I rise?
I like the Borromeo family motto: humilitas in Gothic writing.
Humilitas?😁😁
The Borromeo sisters proceeded to emulate the Millers and Bouviers, by marrying only big-time wealth & names.
Beatrice Borromeo had chutzpah going after the pretend king of Italy and his heir.
The Borromeos like to boast that they are better than most ancient European noble families because not too many can claim to have a saint as a member. A primus inter pares type of situation.
And when you get married in your family’s ancestral island in the middle of Lake Como, humilitas does have an ironic take on the excesses of that family.
Lort, his shit-eating grin in the header photo is disturbing. Overacting on another level!
Country Life?
I’m actually surprised at the seeming embrace of the Beckhams by this demographic.😯😯
The aristos/horsey set are usually hostile to the nouveau rich and bourgeoise.
Even the Middletons still get slings and arrows from the Aristos.
But do aristos actually read Country Life, or like Tatler is it for those who aspire to be aristos and therefore are the only ones who give two hoots about British royalty? I think it’s the former, judged by the time I saw an issue of Country Life (see also Home & Garden UK) and nearly 75% of the magazine was ads for everything from marble floors to stone sculptures to orangerie furnished so elaborately you’d think it was for Empress Josephine. Five thousand pound sofas, that kind of thing. I did like the occasional gardening article amongst the ads for Land Rovers and custom Bentleys. and Home and Garden UK has some great recipes.
But wasn’t Tatler’s “Kate the Great” explicit about how Anmer was decorated like a five star hotel and how that was so against aristo culture, which has dog hair everywhere, old furniture and paintings in dire need of upkeep and an old bottle of mustard and last year’s pheasant in the fridge? This doesn’t sound like Beckham…
genuinely why does he like the taste of the royals’ boots so much?
Father issues and class issues.
He married Victoria because she was “Posh” and all that image transformation he did when he dated her was under his initiative, hence the thrones on their wedding day. Working class boy making millions.
He also had issues with his father. I’m sure this is another way to trump his old man.
Whatever satisfies his id I suppose.
Victoria Adams was NEVER actually considered posh.
Yes, she was well off in comparison to the other Spice Girls, but she wasn’t high born nor elite educated.
She liked labels, spoke like an Essex girl and had a father who drove a rolls royce.
Vicky was as ‘posh’ as Katie Price.😉😉😉
@Jegede
It’s true. Neither Victoria nor David have education or knowledge ever been important, and they passed on the same “values” to their children. They have a lot of children, but they are all uneducated, with no profession, interests or passions. It’s a wonder they can even read or write. Victoria is interested in using her children to increase her popularity, not in educating them. She’s already talking about her 13-year-old daughter, that she’ll make her an internet star. There’s not a word about school. Despite the money and expensive clothes, they’re simpletons. Victoria always wears glasses with her head down, without a smile on her fishy lips, playing a rich celebrity, but when they got an invitation to a party at the palace, she and David behaved like simpletons, as if they were among cultured people for the first time. I know that the aristocracy are often worthless people, but they know how to behave properly. There is a recording of VD being invited to a state banquet at the palace, where at the entrance all the guests, even the high-ranking ones, are politely waiting in line to the banquet hall, and Beckham ignores her and pushes ahead. Victoria walked like a retard (you have to see it), and when she saw the cameras she ran to David and grabbed him. Here is the link. The film from the banquet is 6 minutes long, but Beckham is at the very beginning. You have to see it.
https://youtu.be/zDcf9h7n4TY?feature=shared
Country Life? My Scottish grandmother used to subscribe to that, and when we visited we’d all pick out our favorite houses for sale (pool and tennis courts a must for me). Lots of articles about hunting dogs and a visit to a historic house. So is Beckham going to start wearing tweeds and frayed-at-the-wrist button-down shirts?
Never seen him on a horse so whatever he does is landed gentry cosplay.
Don’t know his base these days. Definitely not the working class. I’m sure some of CL’s subscribers might object.
Who else thinks the Beckham’s ridiculous public feud with their married son was always about getting in with the Royals? The Beckham’s created a scenario that’s given them all something in common. I wonder if Camilla has Posh on speed dial when she wants to vent about just how unfair everything now that she has gotten everything she’s ever connived for and become the Queen, and nobody cares.
Trauma bonding is real, and it seems all too conveniently entwined to me.
This man wanted it so good for him. I’m curious to see what Victoria’s upcoming series will be like. Mostly I hope that we don’t have to read any more stories about the controlling American wife who is holding their poor innocent son hostage. At least from the Beckhams anyways.
@Jais
They will write about their son’s American wife because they want to be like Sussex, and it is easier to accept that HM’s popularity comes from conflict than to admit that they are popular because they are charismatic, hard-working, creative and charming. DV are trying to do something, but they are very limited. They cannot create anything themselves, they can only copy what others do.
I have already pointed out several times that Beckham imitates Sussex’s actions, and Victoria imitates Meghan. It is not as intrusive as with Kate or William, but visible. When Meghan’s series was so successful, I wrote that now we will get Victoria’s series. It was the same with Harry & Meghan’s series. The “conflict” with the son appeared at the perfect moment and was supposed to make headlines for them in the press. For me it is a setup, because it is clear that Beckham is cooperating with the media on this topic.
Recently there have been a lot of DV photos that are copies of HM photos. It’s a shame no one noticed and made fun of them for it. They deserve it.
David supported the Sun newspaper’s Poppy Appeal charity initiative during Covid. And honestly, that’s a choice. Nothing against poppies and veterans but working with a tabloid’s charity feels like an invisible exchange for good press. The kind of thing the Windsors do. It’s just interesting bc I really liked David’s Netflix series bc it showed how brutal the tabloids were with them. And now the tabs are pretty kid gloves with them. So it’s fair to imagine they have an invisible contract too, despite that meaning working with papers that previously did them wrong. Kind of like William.
@jais
Yes, their film wasn’t bad, they’re definitely better at copying Sussex than WK ever did, but I’m talking about the very fact of the vulgar imitation. DV have been known in the media for years, but they’re not as popular as they’d like to be. Their actions are focused on one goal, popularity. They tried different things, sucked up to different people and there was no effect. The appearance of Sussex swept a lot of people off the front pages of the tabloids, which intensified after they left RF. HM are like golden calves, everything they touch turns to gold. Victoria wants that too, so she imitates Meghan. David too. Recently he showed a whole series of photos from the garden, which are literally copies of Meghan’s photos. It’s a bit scary. I’m waiting for someone to write about it, but you’re right, it’s clear they have a contract with the tabloids.
That photo of him and his dirt beard kills me every time I see it….
Isn’t it true that if you have a country estate you can get a tax break if it’s also a farm?
Even Johnny Depp figured that out. ( Sometset mansion and dairy)
I guess he’s not off his knees yet.