H.E. King Charles finally confers Knighthood to David Beckham.

It was a moment David Beckham had been awaiting for a very long time.

At Windsor Castle today, 04th November, 2025, King Charles finally made him Sir David. Under the vaulted ceilings of the Garter throne room, Beckham bent one knee and dipped his famously well-coiffed head as the King touched each shoulder with the ceremonial sword. Victoria Beckham (who made his suit) and his parents, Sandra and Ted, looked on from the sidelines.

Beckham, 50, first became an Officer of the British Empire in 2003. Since then, he has turned himself into a global statesman of soft power, a UNICEF ambassador and, most recently, a court favourite of the New King.

Today’s ceremony was the culmination of a 14 years odyssey. First nominated for a knighthood in 2011, Beckham was quietly blacklisted after becoming entangled in a tax avoidance scheme, an episode that saw his name scribbled onto the “amber list” of those deemed unsuitable for honour. Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs cleared him in 2021, reopening the path to the sword.

Quite how deeply the snub wounded him became clear in 2017, when leaked emails showed Beckham raging privately about the block. “It’s a disgrace”, he reportedly wrote, adding that if he were American, “I would have got something like this 10 years ago”.

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