Prince Ricardo De La Cerda
PRINCE Harry snubbed David Beckham after the football legend flew to Australia to meet him.
David was perplexed as to why Harry did not meet him after the former England player had flown half the way around the world to see him in Sydney.
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“Where is he?” David asked officials as he waited for Harry. “When will I meet him?” he kept asking, royal expert Tom Bower reveals.
Tom is author of Revenge and is currently writing The Beckhams, to be published next year.
At the house the Beckham family had rented in North Shore, Harry’s snub was barely mentioned between David and Victoria.
David didn’t want to dwell on it. “A bit strange,” he said, but he did not call Harry who was hosting the Invictus Games.
The reason for the distance was Meghan, the newly married Duchess of Sussex, who did not want any competition from the Beckhams.
Ever since she had first moved into Harry’s cottage in Kensington Palace in 2017, the Beckhams had been generous towards her.
Unknown to the public, when she privately returned to Los Angeles before her marriage, she stayed in the Beckhams’ six-bedroom luxurious house in Beverly Hills.
Her excuse was to avoid the paparazzi. At no cost, all her needs were provided by the Beckhams’ staff.
If there was any suspicion that Meghan was taking advantage of her new status, the Beckhams pushed their gripe aside.
To build their relationship, Victoria had also given Meghan make-up advice soon after she moved into Kensington Palace.
In her growing fashion business, she was also marketing cosmetics and a member of her staff gave Harry’s fiancée help on facials and hairdressing.
Within weeks, The Sun reported Victoria’s help. Sensitive to the media’s probing of her turbulent past, Meghan was outraged.
Contact was made with the Beckhams.
David was embarrassed but after speaking to his wife, denied that she had leaked any information. But Meghan still felt deeply hurt.
TV pictures of the couple arriving at St George’s Chapel for the Sussexes’ wedding showed Victoria stoney faced and David chewing gum. They had not been invited to the wedding dinner.
A near-unforgivable insult considering all the Hollywood stars invited — and many were not friends.
But regardless of that slight, David accepted Harry’s request that he appear at the Invictus Games in Sydney. But when David arrived at a reception following the 22 hour flight, Harry was not there.