IT WAS THEIR MEN WHO GOT THEM TOGETHER

DAVID BECKHAM and fun-loving Prince Harry (left) have spent a lot of time together both doing charitable work and socialising — and Victoria and Meghan are said to have been introduced to each other by David at members’ club Soho Farmhouse fairly early on in the royal courtship.

David was involved in the Queen’s Young Leaders Award in 2016, which Prince Harry attended.

He was also part of the team bidding to host the World Cup in 2018 or 2022 and travelled to Johannesburg with Prince Harry in 2010 to meet with Fifa officials. Though the bid was not a success, it cemented their friendship. There have been at least two big nights out in London together — one at the end of 2011 and one at the start of 2012, both at the Arts Club in Chelsea. By all accounts, both were heavy drinking sessions that lasted until around 3am.

David’s new passion for shooting — fostered by director Guy Ritchie — gives him even more in common with Harry.

Victoria has her own connections to Prince Harry, first meeting him more than 20 years ago in November 1997 when they both visited South Africa. They held hands — though it was said that schoolboy Harry’s favourite ‘Spice’ was Emma Bunton.

In 2015, three of the Beckham children, Romeo, Cruz and Harper, were introduced to Prince Harry on the sidelines of a Unicef charity football match.

By this time, David and Victoria had already attended the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, in 2011, when Victoria was pregnant with Harper. David said the following year: ‘We had to pinch ourselves when we got the invite. I’ve become friends with Prince William and Harry as well. We were brought up to love the Royal Family and, when Princess Di was around, the love for her was incredible.

‘And then you watch the lives of William and Harry and it’s kind of like the Truman Show, seeing them grow into young men.

‘It makes you proud to be English, watching them grow into the people they are today.’