He has, in his time, sashayed around in a sarong, sported a top-knot and, during his legendary wedding celebrations, seated himself in splendour on one of two gold thrones – while his bride, Victoria, perched on the other.
These days, though, Sir David Beckham, 51, has contentedly settled into a tweedier existence, whether enjoying a day’s partridge shooting with his pal Guy Ritchie, ‘guest-editing’ Country Life magazine or tending to the broad beans and carrots he grows on the 26 acres at his Oxfordshire retreat.
But Sir David, who spent his infancy in Leytonstone, East London, and adolescence in Chingford on the
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