I wish I loved anything as much as David Beckham loves sucking up to royalty. David finally got his knighthood last year after years and years of royal bootlicking, but he’s still showing up for some in-person photo-ops with King Charles whenever Charles wants to get in the papers. On Sunday, King Charles attended the Chelsea Flower Show, and of course he stopped by Sir David’s “garden” at the show.
The King joined Sir David Beckham to tour his own garden at the Chelsea Flower Show, which included a nod to their shared love of beekeeping. The King’s Foundation Curious Garden was designed to reflect the monarch’s passion for plants and the importance of nature.
It also has plenty of references to Brand Beckham, a King’s Foundation ambassador, including gnomes and roses named after them both. The garden features a beehive, inspired by the King and Sir David’s shared enthusiasm for beekeeping and producing natural honey, and seven raised beds in a nod to Sir David’s football shirt number.
The King leaned forward to sniff the rose named in honour of Sir David by his daughter, Harper, to celebrate his 50th birthday.
The King was joined for his annual visit to the show by the Queen, the Princess Royal, the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh and the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester.
Perched on a shelf in the garden were four small gnomes with name tags: Charles III, Sir David, Alan, for co-creator Alan Titchmarsh, the television gardener, and Frances after Frances Tophill, the garden’s designer. The ban on gnomes was lifted this year for only the second time in the show’s history, the previous time being 2013 to mark the flower show’s centenary.
… There was a ban on gnomes…? British people are so fussy. Anyway, David Beckham co-designing a garden for the Chelsea Flower Show is fine, maybe even cool. But David’s obsequiousness towards Charles will always be funny to me. And I’ll always wonder if Victoria gets the ick when she sees David like this.
Meanwhile, another piece of David Beckham news came out recently – David is officially the UK’s first billionaire athlete, per the Sunday Times. He and Victoria are now worth £1.185 billion, and a good chunk of it is David’s stake in Inter Miami.
Photos courtesy of Cover Images.
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- RETRANSMITTED CORRECTING PHOTOGRAPHER’S BYLINE King Charles III and Queen Camilla, watched by Sir David Beckham (right) view the RHS and The King’s Foundation Curious Garden, during their visit to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, at the Royal Hospital Chelsea in London. Featuring: King Charles III and Queen Camilla with Sir David Beckham in background Where: London, United Kingdom When: 17 May 2026 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Sir David Beckham smiles as King Charles III (left) visits the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, at the Royal Hospital Chelsea in London. Featuring: Sir David Beckham and King Charles III Where: London, United Kingdom When: 17 May 2026 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- King Charles III and Queen Camilla meet Sir David Beckham (second from left) as Alan Titchmarsh (left) looks on during their visit to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, at the Royal Hospital Chelsea in London. Featuring: King Charles III and Queen Camilla meet Sir David Beckham (second from left) as Alan Titchmarsh (left) Where: London, United Kingdom When: 18 May 2026 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- King Charles III and Queen Camilla, Sir David Beckham (third from right) and Alan Titchmarsh (right) pose for a photo during their visit to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, at the Royal Hospital Chelsea in London. Featuring: King Charles III and Queen Camilla, Sir David Beckham (third from right) and Alan Titchmarsh (right) Where: London, United Kingdom When: 18 May 2026 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
Between his alleged affairs, working for Qatar during the World Cup, family rifts, who de fk cares how many millions he has, his partner or wife looks staved, his 14 year old daughter dresses like a 24 year old, his sons don’t seem to.do anything, so yeah successful David !! Go spend yr millions,…..
My first thought when I saw the figure was how much of that came from his readiness to sell his soul to Qatar and help them sportswash their image.
Yeah, at this point, his total obsession with royalty doesnt even bother me, it just cracks me up. He’s so obvious about it.
This line from Kaiser took me out and its not even 8 am lmao.
“I wish I loved anything as much as David Beckham loves sucking up to royalty. “
I also cackled at that line
I wonder how many of those who go to Chelsea for this occasion are actually interest in the plants and how many go there to be seen,
David comes from a working class background and I don’t think he could ever *not* whole heartedly believe that associating with the Royals gives him legitimacy. He’s a billionaire but in the British class system he will never be respectable in the old money sense.
Also from what I recall from his Netflix doc, his father was hard on him and very critical, and likely that’s a factor too in wanting acceptance by this crowd.
I don’t think he’ll be respected within that system either (whatever that entails), but I think a football athlete from England being worth this kind of money is kind of unique.
No issues with his success. But he’s a pos so. Whatever, david. Your wife is 20 x worse. She’s tragic . Your family suck
Re: POS…..watch out Daddy Peltz, billionaire David is gaining $ ground on you 😂😂😂
Riiiiiiight. So this guy who was so triggered by his American daughter in law that he launched a global smear campaign against her, made his money in …..Miami? Right. Just like WanK tried to rally support in my hometown only to get razzed at a Celtics game. Move over, dude. We just call that hypocrisy.
Well he made his money investing and owning a soccer team and he was instrumental in bringing the GOAT to that team.
I dont think he’s anti American. I think he’s anti Nicola Peltz which is not the same thing (most of us would be anti NP if people didn’t dislike David and Victoria so much, lol.)
This is to reply to @Becks1, he may not be anti-American, but here’s a side-by-side comparison: say an American athlete who played basketball, just something not remotely popular in the U.K., signed with a British team, on the pledge that he would get the league up and running here, as Beckham signed with the L.A. Galaxy, back in the day. Say everyone asked him what he was thinking, this isn’t a basketball country, is it just the money? Or is it really to bring the sport to a new audience? Say this putative basketball player spent about 5 minutes in the U.K. after obtaining a hero’s welcome, being fêted by all and sundry, in an unprecedented show of acclaim, before deciding to pack it in. Only to be told that, no, since he signed a contract, you can’t just dip. Because you took the money. And that’s just how it is. I mean. How would an American with this profile be treated in the U.K…….? …?…? All I’m saying is, Beckham is in real terms what they always attribute to Meghan and Harry: a gold-digger and publicity whore who just can’t quit the game. The game being, me first, me, me, me. The double standard they invoke to smear Nicola is….. something.
Being a billionaire WORTH a billion with the BULK of that worth built on an 🇺🇸 soccer ⚽️ league is…isn’t being a 💲Billionaire
How he ruined his face! David used to be good looking. Now he’s just yuck.
My bf was very ‘what??’ when I first mentioned it because we saw him on tv but then he was in some ad for an at-home beer pump (rich people always want MORE money of course) that kept coming on and now he sees it!
I’m a little surprised he wasn’t a billionaire a long time ago, but maybe I’m starting to get a skewed sense of what having a billion actually means since billionaire this and billionaire that is all we hear nowadays
YankeeDoodles, always like your comments. You break it down very well.