Inside the “feud” between the Beckhams and Harry and Meghan Markle (big absentees at Victoria’s party)

Among the one hundred selected guests who attended Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday party, the prince Harry and Meghan Markle there were not. And no one was surprised. Because Posh Spice is her husband David according to the British tabloids, the Sussexes have broken up some time ago. And to think that the two couples were once very close: the news says that, before her marriage to Harry in 2018, The Beckhams secretly hosted Markle in their sumptuous home in Beverly Hills, away from paparazzi and prying eyes. And that it was Victoria herself one of the first to support Meghan at the time of his move to London and his entry into the royal family. Harry, for his part, had been close to Victoria since he was a teenager: when she was in the Spice Girls, he, together with his brother William, met her several times. Even during the premiere of Spice World The Movie (in 1997).

The most dramatic demonstration of the close bond between the Beckhams and the Sussexes came in 2018, when David and Victoria attended to the royal wedding of Harry and Meghan. According to the royal biographer Tom Bower, however, there were tensions even then. In fact, David and Victoria were only invited to the religious ceremony under the eyes of the cameras: not at the evening banquet. AND «that was an almost unforgivable insult for them». According to Bower, Meghan and Harry did not want the Beckhams at the post-wedding party because they began to suspect that they were among the moles who leaked indiscretions about their personal affairs to the press. From there, the first crack in the friendship between the two couples.

The second arrived in October 2018when David, at Harry’s invitation, took a twenty-two hour flight from London to Sydney to attend the Invictus Game, the event created by the prince in honor of veterans wounded in war. Arrived in Australia, Beckham didn’t find Harry waiting for him at the airport. And according to Bower he was very disappointed. But why did the prince snub the former footballer? According to the royal expert, it was Markle’s “fault”. Her duchess, on her first royal trip after her marriage to Harry, «she didn’t want to be overshadowed by David Beckham nor even find yourself in competition with his wife, Victoria.” Meghan “wanted her trip to be a success.” Hence the new insult to David. The situation worsened when Harry and Meghan, from overseas, began to fire at the royal family. David and Victoria, always very close to William and Kate Middleton, they moved further and further away from the Sussexes.

The straw that broke the camel’s back, however, dates back to 2023, according to the British tabloids, when Harry and Meghan, during a furious argument on the phone, accused David and Victoria of having leaked personal information about them to the press. Since then the stylist and the former Sussex footballer have not wanted to hear about it anymore. And in fact the prince and his wife, at the biggest events of recent times in the Beckham house, they didn’t see each other: they weren’t at the wedding of Brooklyn with Nicola Peltz (in 2023), were not at Victoria’s 50th birthday party last Saturday.