One of Victoria and David Beckham’s former bodyguards, Craig Ainsworth, who served the couple between 2013 and 2015, revealed to The Mirror that Victoria, not David, was running their relationship behind the scenes. “Who’s in charge? I feel most women are in charge and just let us men feel like we’re in charge half the time,” said Ainsworth, a former Marine, in 2023. Ainsworth also revealed that the Beckhams had a ton of security on hand. “David and Victoria are both highly professional and have had so much security we’re like background noise to them, we’re part of the furniture,” he added.
Given the wealth of secrets Ainsworth probably held, this was a pretty tame recollection. Unfortunately, he’s not the only ex-bodyguard with chatty tendencies. In 2000, the Beckhams sued another of their former bodyguards, Mark Niblett, for feeding information about their private life to Andrew Morton, the famous biographer who penned Princess Diana’s biography nearly a decade earlier, and who was in the process of writing a new tome about the couple. In August of that year, the Beckhams were forced to settle their case against Morton due to laws involving free speech. Morton’s Beckham-centered biography, “Posh and Becks,” was released in 2001.
Eh, you can’t win them all!
