David Beckham and King Charles are Beekeeping Buddies

Fanatics of the sustainability-focused investmrent the King’s Base are abuzz this weekend, then retired football splendid David Beckham was once introduced as its actual ambassador. All it took was once a royal dialog in regards to the birds and the bees.

Beckham, whose spouse Victoria Beckham has transitioned from Spice Ladies stardom to occasion as a well-respected style dressmaker, retired as a participant in 2013. Since upcoming, he’s dabbled in crew possession, gotten extra tattoos, and filmed himself doing partly clothed push-ups. As documented on his Instagram account, he’s additionally turn out to be just a little of of a beekeeper.

The athlete is assured enough quantity in his bee assist tasks that at a meet and greet terminating life, 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,” stated the footballer to the King.

“Really?” Charles answered “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 has a tendency the bees at at his Highgrove Space nation house in Tetbury. In keeping with the royal society’s respectable site, Clarence Space could also be house to 2 beehives, and Buckingham Palace boasts 4. (Chances are you’ll recall the ones colonies from the headlines of fall, 2022, when palace beekeeper John Chapple knowledgeable each teams that Queen Elizabeth II had died.)

One wonders if terminating life’s honey switch created a sticky bond between the 2, advert the pair got here in combination once more terminating day at Highgrove Disciplines, a commentary from the King’s Base reads. Nearest Beckham noticed “first-hand the charity’s impactful education programmes that take place at specialist workshops on site,” the athlete determined to spouse with Charles’s investmrent, which seeks to struggle the shape and herbal useful resource catastrophe thru schooling 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 offered a knighthood, reports the Mirror, so an appointment like this could help move that aspiration forward. Meanwhile, an affiliation with the celebrity could help rehab the King’s Foundation’s image after a 2021 “cash-for-access” scandal. According to a report by the Guardian, a representative of the group—then known as The Prince’s Foundation—was offering dinners with Charles in exchange for hefty donations. Charles was reportedly unaware of the alleged scheme, and after an investigation, Metropolitan police declined to take action.

This weekend’s announcement provides The King’s Base to Beckham’s already-long record of promotional partnerships. The fame was once additionally introduced as the worldwide ambassador for Alibaba-owned e-commerce platform AliExpress terminating day. In keeping with the Father or mother, “He is also an ambassador for Tudor watches, Tempur mattresses, Unicef, and Nespresso coffee machines, and he also fronts a Walkers crisps ad.”