From her days as a Spice Girl to marriage and motherhood, and success as a fashion designer, Victoria Beckham remains one of the world’s most famous – and most photographed – women. Now, she and her husband David have taken us inside their world by giving an extraordinary glimpse into their love story as part of the eagerly awaited Netflix documentary Beckham, released this week.
HOW IT ALL BEGAN
“I just fancied him. It was as simple as that. I wrote my number on an airplane ticket and I remember saying: ‘You had better call me,’” she says of their very first encounter, when the then Victoria Adams flew to Manchester with her bandmate Melanie Chisholm to attend a Manchester United match in 1997.
“I am not into football,” continues Victoria in the four-part series. “But I had seen pictures of him and he was obviously a really good-looking young man. The fact that I went to the game really was to – some would say stalk, I would say see him. When I saw him in the footballers’ lounge, all the other players were at the bar but he was talking to his