{"id":78017,"date":"2025-11-04T09:46:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T09:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78017"},"modified":"2025-11-04T09:46:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T09:46:44","slug":"david-beckham-to-receive-knighthood-at-windsor-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/04\/david-beckham-to-receive-knighthood-at-windsor-castle\/","title":{"rendered":"David Beckham to Receive Knighthood at Windsor Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Merciful Omoba<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Former England captain David Beckham will be knighted at Windsor Castle on Tuesday for his services to sport and charity.<\/p>\n<p>The 50-year-old football legend, who described himself as \u201cimmensely proud\u201d to be honoured in the King\u2019s Birthday Honours, joins a select group of distinguished Britons receiving royal recognition.<\/p>\n<p>Beckham made his Premier League debut for Manchester United in 1995 and went on to win six Premier League titles, two FA Cups, and the 1999 UEFA Champions League before retiring in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond football, he has served as a UNICEF goodwill ambassador since 2005 and was appointed an ambassador for the King\u2019s Foundation last year.<\/p>\n<p>Also to be honoured are Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, named Companion of Honour for services to literature, and West End performer Elaine Paige.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Merciful Omoba &nbsp; Former England captain David Beckham will be knighted at Windsor Castle on Tuesday for his services to sport and charity. The 50-year-old football legend, who described himself as \u201cimmensely proud\u201d to be honoured in the King\u2019s Birthday Honours, joins a select group of distinguished Britons receiving royal recognition. Beckham made his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":78018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78019,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78017\/revisions\/78019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}