David Beckham and Victoria Beckham’s love story – their rollercoaster romance that started with secret dates in a car park
The couple, who denied they were splitting in a shock statement, began their£560million journey with secret dates at the back of a Harvester’s pub
David Beckham and Victoria Beckham have a dreamy love story — and according to the soccer star, it began before they ever even crossed paths.
In 2008, David told Ellen DeGeneres he knew he wanted to marry Victoria after seeing the Spice Girls on TV. “I was in a hotel room with my best friend, who was my best man at my wedding,” he said. “I remember turning around — before I’d even met Victoria — and said, ‘I want to marry that one.’ ”
The pair married in 1999 and now share four children: sons Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz, as well as daughter Harper.
While the pair will be the first to say their longtime union is the result of a whole lot of hard work and commitment, Victoria has said “love at first sight does exist.” “It will happen to you in the Manchester United players’ lounge,” she wrote to her 18-year-old self in Vogue. “Although you will get a little drunk, so exact details are hazy.”
From moving countries to attending their son’s wedding, here’s what to know about David and Victoria Beckham’s relationship.
1997: David and Victoria Beckham meet at a soccer match
Victoria Adams & David Beckham, Backstage After Whitney Houston Concert, At Wembley Arena, London (Photo by Dave Benett/Getty Images)
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Though the couple grew up within 15 minutes of each other in London, they didn’t actually meet until years later, when Victoria was Posh Spice of the Spice Girls and David was playing with Manchester United.
David recounted the meeting on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. “She came to a football match — soccer match — and I said hi from across the room and that was it,” he recalled. “I thought I’d missed my chance, and then a week later she turned up at another football match.”
Their second meeting was more involved, as David shared with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show. “We talked for about an hour in the players’ lounge and then she actually got the train up that day, so she wrote her number down on her train ticket, which I still have,” he revealed.
Victoria said she was taken by David’s family-oriented nature. “While the other football players stand at the bar drinking with their mates, you will see David standing aside with his family. (He’s not even in the first team at this stage — you are the famous one.),” she wrote to her younger self in Vogue. “And he has such a cute smile. You, too, are close to your family, and you will think how similar he feels to you.”
1997: David and Victoria Beckham go on their first date
While the pair haven’t shared details about their first date, in 2014, Victoria posted a picture of the dress that she wore — an orange sleeveless number with a belted waist.
January 1998: David and Victoria Beckham get engaged
David Beckham and fiance singer from the “Spice Girls” Victoria Adams pose for photographers outside their hotel after the announcement of their engagement on January 25, 1998 in Chester, United Kingdom
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The couple kicked off the new year with a bang in 1998, announcing that they were engaged, but didn’t plan to wed until the summer of 1999.
