Meghan Markle ordered Prince Harry to ‘brutally’ snub David Beckham at Invictus Games— but soccer star got revenge: book

nypost.com:

“The House of Beckham: Money, Sex and Power,” with the author alleging that the prince and the athlete had been friendly for years before their fallout.

Beckham and his wife, Victoria, were guests at Harry and Meghan’s wedding in May 2018 — but the relationship between the two couples soured less than six months later.

In October 2018, Beckham attended Harry’s Invictus Games for injured service people in Sydney, Australia, but was purportedly kept away from the prince at Markle’s behest. “Beckham found himself alone at the Invictus Games stadium,” Bower writes in the biography. “Arriving on the agreed day to meet Prince Harry he was perplexed [as to] why officials were playing a dance to keep him happy, but away from Harry.”The soccer player is said to have questioned officials as to why he wasn’t allowed to spend time with royal, before he allegedly learned that “the prince had ordered that under no circumstances was the footballer to be allowed near him.”“Photographs of the two together were forbidden,” Bower claimed. “The royal snub was brutal.

David Beckham was puzzled. Why did the prince refuse to meet him?”“The exclusion order, it later transpired, was issued by Meghan,” the author alleged. “She did not want any competition in the media from Beckham, and especially not from his wife Victoria.”Beckham was said to be “perplexed” and hurt by the move, but he exacted revenge more than four years later, Bower claims.