Is David Beckham fishing for a knighthood?
Depending on your level of cynicism, David Beckham’s 13 hour stint in The Queue was either a heartfelt tribute to the nation’s grandmother, or a calculated bid to finally secure that elusive knighthood.
Becks has been stuck on a lowly OBE since 2003, and in 2017 he branded the honours committee “unappreciative cunts” for overlooking him and told his PR team, “unless it’s a knighthood fuck off.”
When classical singer Katherine Jenkins got an OBE, he raged, “Katherine Jenkins OBE for what? Singing at the rugby and going to see the troops plus taking coke. Fucking joke.”
While we’re on the subject of Becks paying tribute to beloved queens, here’s one of our favourite tweets of the last few years…
