David Beckham has been widely praised for snubbing an offer to jump queue to pay his respects to the Queen and opting to wait 13 hours alongside members of the public instead.The football legend said his decision to wait in line was a tribute to his late grandfather, who he believed “wouldn't have approved of him jumping ahead” of members of the public.Beckham won over fans by queuing with the rest of the public amid criticism aimed at the so-called social elite for bypassing the huge waiting time.READ MORE: Queue tracker live: Exact location and wait times for Queen's lying-in-state lineThe former England football captain joined the line at 2am and remained firm in his view that he should queue, despite receiving an offer to skip the line from a member of parliament.
MP’s are able to take four people with them to skip the line but Beckham, whose grandfather was a firm royalist, would not have approved.A source told the Daily Mail: "David could have avoided all of the queuing but he wanted to be like everyone else."He said his grandad wouldn’t have [jumped the queue] so neither would he."He had been wondering all week when the best time was to go and finally he went for this morning.
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