And now, mend it like Beckham

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal"><script language="javascript">doweshowbellyad=0; </script><br />LONDON: In the midst of frenzied worldwide speculation about infidelity and the state of their union, David and Victoria appear to have shown there is no one who can mend it like Beckham.<br /></div> <div align="left" style="position:relative; left: -2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="left" border="1" width="32.1%"> <colgroup> <col width="100.0%" /> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" f3f3f3=""> <div class="Normal"><img src="/photo/621215.cms" alt="/photo/621215.cms" border="0" /></div> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" f3f3f3=""> <div class="Normal"><span style="" font-size:="">David & Victoria in better times</span></div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="Normal"><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">On Saturday, in the most talked-about, heavily-publicised ‘surprise’ birthday present in the history of modern celebritocracy, a contrite David makes one of the rarest, most romantic and wildly expensive gestures of devotion to his wife.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">He’s bought her a £1-million pink diamond to mark the former Posh Spice’s 30th birthday. </span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">Matching earrings are on their way to the Beckham’s grand English country pile, nicknamed ‘Beckingham Palace’ by the press.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">And a handmade £200,000 eternity ring created by an exclusive Spanish jeweller is inscribed with the soppy message, "I will love you forever", while five perfect sparklers flash the message as well.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">Commentators sniped that the best-known, most marketable celebrity pairing of football and pop appeared to have made bling-bling the only ‘posh’ way to say sorry.</span><br /><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold=""><formid=367815></formid=367815></span><br /><br /></div> </div><div class="section2"><div class="Normal"><br />Pink diamonds, the rarest and costliest of all rocks, mostly come from one particular Australian mine, but they’re also found in India. The Beckhams’ bling-bling boost to their seven-year partnership, is believed to have been advised by Victoria’s friend, singer Elton John who owns some of the rose-coloured stones himself.<br /><br />Many believe the Beckham’s flashy marital peace-making could not have come at a better time. The news came on the morning after Beckham’s ‘other woman’ spoke out about his remarkable talents as a lover; his neediness and, most damningly, his talent for straying from Victoria.<br /><br />The hour-long, paid-for interview to Sky TV, appeared to reinforce claims by 26-year-old Rebecca Loos that Beckham was a ‘serial strayer’ with a goody-goody brand image.<br /><br />Loos, the sassy, sensationally-tanned, soft-spoken and superior-sounding daughter of a Dutch diplomat, told a transfixed world she did not find Beckham, celebrity sex god to millions around the world, attractive to start with.<br /><br />Eventually, she confessed, she became besotted with him. But mostly, said Loos, she slept with the England football captain because she “felt sorry for him�. The throwaway remark is reliably thought to knock hundreds of thousands of pounds off Beckham in the sex appeal stakes.<br /><br />But he can afford it, according to Sunday’s newest rich list, which records the couple becoming richer by £15 million, to have a combined fortune of £65 million. Beckham, the richest young sportsman in the list, is supposed to be worth £50 million on his own.<br /><br /><formid=367815></formid=367815></div> </div>