As Tom Bower's new explosive biography, The House of Beckham, is serialised in the Mirror, we take a look at the man Victoria was engaged to before David swept her off her feet
Victoria and David Beckham will celebrate their 25 year wedding anniversary on July 4 but the Spice Girl nearly ended up with her childhood sweetheart.
"It wasn't the right person for me, I wasn't enjoying myself, so that had to end," she told Channel 4. "But I didn't give him the ring back either! I've still got it because it was a wicked ring. Isn't that horrible? It makes me sound really materialistic." For Mark, at first he had nothing but nice things to say about his ex.
Two years after their split, she met Beckham in the Manchester United player's lounge, and 10 months later they announced their own engagement on the steps of a hotel in Cheshire. Posh, then 23, giggled shyly as she showed off her £65,000 diamond solitaire handcrafted by Manchester jewellers, Boodle and Dunthorne.
And after getting into their bath robes and ordering dinner and champagne to the room, David popped the question. "We were sitting there in our dressing gowns when David pulled out the ring, got down on one knee and said, 'Will you marry me, Victoria?'" she said, according to the book Arise Sir David Beckham : Footballer, Celebrity, Legend. For David's part, his nerves didn't kick in until the final second.
The Beckhams tied the knot in a lavish ceremony packed with star guests from the worlds of showbiz and football at Luttrellstown Castle in Ireland on July 4, 1999. The couple have been wed for 25 years this year but according to explosive new book, The House of Beckham by Tom Bower, their marriage hit crisis point eight years ago.
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