'We all wanna experience something where we celebrate the amazing life of our Queen,' Beckham said. 'Something like this, today, is meant to be shared together.'
David Beckham met Queen Elizabeth numerous times, but he joined the rest of the public to queue to pay his respects one last time.
"We all want to be here together and experience and celebrate the amazing life of our Queen. I think that something like this today here together is meant to be shared," he told reporters. Beckham joined the queue at 2 a.m., and made it inside Westminster around 3:20 p.m.—a total of over 13 hours in the queue.He was pictured wearing a suit, newsboy cap, and a mask, and carried an umbrella with him.
In 2003, Queen Elizabeth appointed Beckham an OBE—Order of the British Empire—for his services to football."The most special moment for me was to receive my OBE. I took my grandparents with me, who were the ones that really brought me up to be a huge royalist and a fan of the royal family, and obviously I had my wife there as well," he shared.
"It's a sad day, but it's a day for us to remember the incredible legacy that she's left," Beckham concluded. Beckham's walk through Westminster Hall could be viewed on the livestreams, and the British athlete looked emotional as he wiped away tears.
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