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Wedding on May 19, adding a pop of colour with her yellow heels. David owns a major stake in heritage fashion brand Kent & Curwen brand along with business partner Simon Fuller.

His fashion designer wife shared a number of photos on her Instagram page as she supported her husband, telling fans she was “so proud” of the “beautiful collection”.

Twenty- four hours before, Victoria was pictured looking sombre on Saturday as she was seen for the first time since the Beckham camp hit back at the divorce claims. In pictures obtained exclusivel­y by MailOnline a week before the London reunion, the 44-year-old posh was seen leaving a boutique hotel in the upmarket district of Mayfair in London, making a quick exit as she hurried into her car.

As the mother- of- four was in the English capital, her husband, 43, was more than 3,000 miles away in Miami on a business trip. Their respective outings came after they were forced to shoot down rumours of an impending divorce.

After rumours of an impending split began racing around social media on June 8, Jo Milloy, a spokesman for Spice Girl- turned- designer Victoria, told the Daily Mail that the gossip was ‘ absolute nonsense’.

Meanwhile, former Real Madrid star’s spokesman, Simon Oliveira, likewise dubbed the claims ‘embarrassi­ng and laughable’.

Elsewhere, a spokesman for the couple was quoted as saying: “There is no statement due, no divorce and a lot of Chinese whispers and fake social media news. This is all very bizarre and an embarrassi­ng waste of time.”

While David became famous playing football for England, Manchester United and Real Madrid, Victoria rose to fame in the late 1990s with the all- female pop group Spice Girls, and was dubbed Posh.

Behind the plastered- on half- smile and carefully crafted public display of affection last Sunday, David and Victoria Beckham’s marriage remains a complicate­d beast.

There are power battles, jealousy, a genuine love for their children and, above all else, a desire to keep the $877 million Brand Beckham going, The Sun reports.

As their spokespeop­le - in full- on damage limitation mode - so keenly stressed while addressing the false Twitter rumours spreading like wildfire, there is no imminent divorce or any sort of split being consid-

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