Victoria Beckham steps out as it's announced her husband David is set to receive a knighthood

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Victoria Beckham stepped out in West London on Thursday as it was announced her husband David is set to receive a knighthood.
The former Spice Girl, 50, looked effortlessly chic in black workout gear and a pair of stylish shades as she emerged from her £100K Porsche.
The news of David's knighthood in the King's Birthday Honour's List comes after years of being snubbed for the honour.
Now footage from the couple's 2003 ITV documentary The Real Beckhams has resurfaced, revealing Victoria had her sights on a title of her own long before the honours list caught up with her husband.
Filmed on the morning of David's OBE investiture at Buckingham Palace, the scene shows the couple in a London hotel room preparing for the big day.
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'David's nan and grandad are very excited. It's going to be a really nice day, and we're going to have lunch afterwards,' Victoria explains, before turning to the football legend and adding: 'I can't believe you're going to be David Beckham OBE.'
David replied, 'I'm going to make you call me it,' to which Victoria responds with a grin, 'When you become a Sir and I'm a Lady, I'll make everyone call me it. Everyone! Even you.'
Laughing awkwardly, David said: 'We'll see.'
It was, at the time, a light-hearted exchange, but with David finally due to be knighted more than two decades later, her playful banter now feels incredibly prescient.
The former Manchester United and England star, 50, is to be awarded a knighthood in the King's Birthday Honours List. He will be confirmed as a 'Sir' when the list is released next week, according to The Sun, meaning Victoria will officially be known as Lady Beckham.
In the resurfaced footage of their preparation for his OBE investiture, their sons - and only children at the time - Romeo, then 14 months, and Brooklyn, then four, also appear. A lively Brooklyn flits through the scene, hugging his dad as he returns from the ceremony.
The tender father-son moment that day feels especially poignant now, given the rift between Brooklyn and the family.
The news of David's knighthood in the King's Birthday Honour's List comes after years of being snubbed for the honour - the doc was filmed on the morning of David's OBE investiture at Buckingham Palace, the scene shows the couple in a London hotel room preparing for the big day
Brooklyn and his wife Nicola Peltz Beckham remain estranged from the wider family, meaning it's unlikely they will be joining them in celebrating David's knighthood next week.
Victoria and David also share son Cruz, 20, and daughter Harper, 13.
At another point in the video, Victoria jokes to David about his OBE, which was awarded by the late Queen for his services to football: 'Damn, I can't believe you beat me to it.'
The pop star turned fashion designer is yet to receive a royal honour and following the investiture, she also admits to having a new-found appreciation for the royals.
'I like the fact that we have a Royal Family - it's lovely - but I was looking at the Queen today and I'm thinking, she's standing there for an hour and a half, giving out these awards... she probably does this every day. She travels around, she does a job at the end of the day, and she's still really polite. She made every single person there today feel special.'
She adds: 'She spoke to everybody! Some guy got a medal for services to the Inland Revenue. I mean, who the hell would want to talk to him? But she did! That was so nice.
'We had a little bit of a nosy round [the Palace]. It wasn't quite as stylish as Beckingham Palace, not quite as modern.'
Beckingham Palace was the nickname given to their lavish £2.5million home in Hertfordshire, which David and Victoria purchased shortly after their 1999 wedding.
David, an avid royalist since he was a schoolboy in Chingford, has long craved for a knighthood and it appeared to be within his grasp having received an OBE from the late Queen in 2003
The Grade II-listed mansion, set in 24 acres and featuring a maze, recording studio and football pitch, became a symbol of their early-2000s celebrity status. They sold the property in 2014 to focus on homes abroad and a more private lifestyle.
Later on in the fly-on-the-wall documentary, David reflects: 'I felt really proud today. Proud to be English,' adding that the Queen told him it was a great honour to be giving him the medal.
'She asked me if it's tiring travelling back and forward playing football. I said no.' Referring to his 2003 autobiography My Side, he continues: 'She didn't ask for an autograph... She'd read my book though.'
The tattooed ex-England captain last month chatted with King Charles at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London, with their bond reportedly growing close in recent years through their shared love of gardening.
David, an avid royalist since he was a schoolboy in Chingford, has long craved for a knighthood and it appeared to be within his grasp having received an OBE from the late Queen in 2003.
While his appointment as an ambassador to HM's charity the King's Foundation was deemed an encouraging sign earlier last year, but his complicated tax affairs had once been viewed as a possible barrier.
And in February 2017, there was a slew of leaked emails showing the former footballer had appeared to unleash a barrage of expletives criticising the honours committee that had once again left him off the list for a coveted gong.
There was also an alleged 2013 leaked email, when, bitter not to be knighted, he complained about Katherine Jenkins, fuming 'Katherine Jenkins OBE for what? Singing at the rugby and going to see the troops. Plus taking coke. F****** joke.'