Fans of the sustainability-focused charity the King’s Foundation are abuzz this weekend, after retired soccer nice David Beckham was introduced as its newest ambassador. All it took was a royal dialog concerning the birds and the bees.
Beckham, whose spouse Victoria Beckham has transitioned from Spice Girls stardom to life as a well-respected dressmaker, retired as a participant in 2013. Since then, he is dabbled in crew possession, gotten extra tattoos, and filmed himself doing partially clothed push-ups. As documented on his Instagram account, he is additionally grow to be a little bit of of a beekeeper.
The athlete is assured sufficient in his bee care duties that at a meet and greet final 12 months, David Beckham offered King Charles III with a pot of homegrown honey. “I made some honey for you. It comes from my bees in Oxfordshire,” mentioned the footballer to the King.
“Really?” Charles responded “Well, I’ll have to swap it with the one that I do.”
That’s proper, the King additionally makes his personal honey, as he tends the bees at at his Highgrove House nation house in Tetbury. According to the royal household’s official web site, Clarence House can also be house to 2 beehives, and Buckingham Palace boasts 4. (You may recall these colonies from the headlines of fall, 2022, when palace beekeeper John Chapple knowledgeable each teams that Queen Elizabeth II had died.)
One wonders if final 12 months’s honey swap created a sticky bond between the 2, advert the pair got here collectively once more final month at Highgrove Gardens, an announcement from the King’s Foundation reads. After Beckham noticed “first-hand the charity’s impactful education programmes that take place at specialist workshops on site,” the athlete determined to companion with Charles’s charity, which seeks to battle the local weather and pure useful resource disaster via training and coaching.
“I’m excited to be working with The King’s Foundation and to have the opportunity to help raise awareness of the charity’s work,” Beckham said in a statement. “I’ve always been keen to help young people to expand their horizons and I’m particularly looking forward to supporting the Foundation’s education programmes and its efforts to ensure young people have greater access to nature.”
“Having developed a love for the countryside I’m also on a personal mission to learn more about rural skills which is so central to the Foundation’s work. It was inspiring to hear from The King about the work of His Majesty’s Foundation during my recent visit to Highgrove Gardens – and compare beekeeping tips!”
Beckham is actively hoping to be supplied a knighthood, studies the Mirror, so an appointment like this might assist transfer that aspiration ahead. Meanwhile, an affiliation with the celeb may assist rehab the King’s Foundation’s picture after a 2021 “cash-for-access” scandal. According to a report by the Guardian, a consultant of the group—then referred to as The Prince’s Foundation—was providing dinners with Charles in alternate for hefty donations. Charles was reportedly unaware of the alleged scheme, and after an investigation, Metropolitan police declined to take motion.
This weekend’s announcement provides The King’s Foundation to Beckham’s already-long listing of promotional partnerships. The celeb was additionally introduced as the worldwide ambassador for Alibaba-owned e-commerce platform AliExpress final week. According to the Guardian, “He is also an ambassador for Tudor watches, Tempur mattresses, Unicef, and Nespresso coffee machines, and he also fronts a Walkers crisps ad.”