Titles matter

I must admit to being slightly worried at the thought that England will go all the way, though. Because if England go all the way, Beckham will get a knighthood - one of Tony Blair's special People's Knighthoods, like the one for Mick Jagger that my colleague Robert Harris admits to being responsible for, drat him.
I don't mind hunky little Becks becoming Sir David, but I dread the thought of his Posh spouse getting her hands on a title-by-marriage. Ugh - she'll be chirping away in Hello! about how being "Lady Victoria" won't change her at all, ooh, no, at the end of the day she's still the same person underneath, etc. etc.
Nothing and nobody - from me to Garter King of Arms - will ever persuade either Posh or the tabloids that she's not and never could be "Lady Victoria", only Lady Beckham (knight's wife, courtesy title).
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Germany isn’t working

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