{"id":27008,"date":"2026-03-15T04:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T04:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/footballer-david-beckham-receives-knighthood-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T04:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T04:16:11","slug":"footballer-david-beckham-receives-knighthood-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/footballer-david-beckham-receives-knighthood-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Footballer David Beckham receives knighthood | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Lc14XvRlDb0?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Former England captain Sir David Beckham has been formally knighted for his services to football and British society.<\/p>\n<p>The 50-year-old, who was named on King Charles&#8217; Birthday Honours list earlier this year, was knighted by the King during a ceremony at Windsor Castle.<\/p>\n<p>Sir David Beckham was joined by his wife, now Lady Victoria, and his parents Sandra and Ted at Windsor Castle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I couldn&#8217;t be prouder,&#8221; said Beckham. &#8220;People know how patriotic I am &#8211; I love my country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#SirDavidBeckham #ManchesterUnited #Knighthood #BBCNews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Lc14XvRlDb0\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former England captain Sir David Beckham has been formally knighted for his services to football and British society. The 50-year-old, who was named on King Charles&#8217; Birthday Honours list earlier this year, was knighted by the King during a ceremony at Windsor Castle. Sir David Beckham was joined by his wife, now Lady Victoria, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27010,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27008\/revisions\/27010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}