BEAMING David Beckham looked thrilled to be chosen as best man at dad Ted’s wedding to solicitor Hilary Meredith this weekend.
Wearing matching black suits, father and son looked closer than ever at the family bash in London’s Temple - all the more special in light of a painful rift that threatened to tear the family apart 15 years ago.
The doting dad’s determination to see his son succeed on the pitch was a huge factor in David’s stellar football career, but relations cooled between the pair when Ted split with wife Sandra in 2002, after 33 years of marriage.
David’s transfer to Real Madrid in 2003 added physical distance between them, and Ted, now 72, feared he had “lost him” forever.
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