Beckhams host lavish christening for sons
David and Victoria Beckham are hosting a glitzy christening today for sons Romeo and Brooklyn.
A private chapel has been built especially for the occasion in the grounds of the couple’s Hertfordshire mansion.
Elton John and partner David Furnish, Liz Hurley and boyfriend Arun Nayar, Greg and Lucy Rusedski and Beckham’s former Manchester United team-mate Gary Neville are all expected to attend the lavish evening ceremony.
The Beckhams are believed to have chosen Elton and his partner as godparents to Brooklyn, five, and two-year-old Romeo.
Victoria’s former Spice Girl bandmates – Geri Halliwell, Emma Bunton, Melanie Brown and Melanie Chisholm – have all been invited.
If they all turn up, it will be the first time the five have been under the same roof since Victoria hosted a dinner party for them at Beckingham Palace two years ago.
Other stars to receive invitations include Hollywood star Tom Cruise, Wayne Rooney and Coleen McLoughlin, and Sven Goran Eriksson and Nancy Dell’Olio.
The rest of the guest list will be made up of close friends and family, including the Beckhams' parents and siblings.
Victoria, who is expecting her third child in March, has planned the ceremony down to the tiniest detail.
To get to the chapel, which has a white angel above the arched doorway, guests will walk past fake ruins modelled on the crumbling Irish church where the couple wed.
Although Brooklyn and Romeo will have a traditional Christian ceremony, the chapel appears to have two Buddhist shrines at its entrance.
The couple have flirted with different religions and earlier this year Victoria was spotted wearing a red Kabbalah bracelet.
After Brooklyn’s birth, David remarked: “I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don’t know into what religion yet.”
