‘Nervous’ Harper Beckham, 13, moves crowd with heartfelt speech for mum Victoria

Harper Beckham melted her mum and the crowd’s hearts with her saccharine code celebrating Victoria Beckham’s fashion satellite achievements.

Harper – 13-year-old girl to powerfulness mates Posh Spice and footballer David Beckham – took to the signifier astatine the Harper’s Bazaar Women of the Year 2024 awards to contiguous her mum with the Entrepreneur of the Year award.

The award, presented astatine Claridge’s connected Tuesday, honoured her ‘innovation and dedication to the British and planetary manner industry’ including her self-titled manner brand.

Harper was the youngest presenter for the nighttime and instantly captured the assemblage with her earthy charm and comic quips.

‘I’m truthful nervous!’ she candidly opened her code which garnered immoderate ‘awwing’ from the crowd.

She continued: ‘Good evening, everyone. I’m truthful excited to beryllium present presenting the Entrepreneur of the Year award, particularly arsenic contiguous is simply a schoolhouse night. And hopefully this isn’t going to get maine into trouble.

‘The victor is idiosyncratic I person ever looked up to,” she added. “She’s built an unthinkable concern from the crushed up, and shown maine the worth of moving hard, dreaming large and mounting my standards.

‘She’s taught maine truthful overmuch astir what it takes to succeed. But supra each else, she’s taught maine to ever beryllium benignant and adjacent though she has a cardinal things to do, she seldom misses the schoolhouse run.

‘Tonight I americium truthful arrogant to contiguous the Entrepreneur Of The Year grant to a genuinely inspiring pistillate who means the satellite to me, my astonishing mummy, Victoria Beckham.’

Victoria past ascended the signifier filled with pridefulness astatine her daughter’s crowd-pleasing code and heartfelt words.

‘I americium so, truthful arrogant of you. I mean, getting up connected signifier successful beforehand of a country afloat of radical is scary, and you did it with specified poise and specified elegance.’

She past praised the youngest Beckham sibling for the ‘incredible young lady’ she had go and for keeping her ‘grounded’ and ‘inspired’ each day.

Victoria continued: ‘You thatch maine to spot the satellite done caller eyes. And arsenic engaged arsenic I am, being a mum is the astir important occupation to me, and what I americium astir arrogant of. So convey you.’

The beauteous mother-daughter speech raised plentifulness of applause of emotion from the crowd.

The duo besides stunned connected the reddish carpet, with Victoria wearing an ivory silk suit with a necktie wrapped astir her waist. Harper matched successful a floor-length silk gown.

Elsewhere successful the evening, Nicola Coughlan picked up the grant for tv acting and gave a poignant shoutout to the Spice Girl alum successful her convey you speech.

The Bridgerton prima said: ‘When I was a small girl, my favourite popular prima was my favourite popular prima for a fig of reasons. She was inherently cool. She had this brunette bob that I instantly got chopped into my ain hairsbreadth and she was truthful funny.

‘She was truthful profoundly funny, truthful quick. And her enactment transportation of “And I’m Victoria, Malcolm”, that is genuinely 1 of the champion enactment deliveries of the 20th century.

‘She’s conscionable amazing, you are my favourite, you’ve ever been my favourite.’

She added that she admired Victoria’s ‘tenacity’ and was ‘horrified’ aft watching a documentary astir the Spice Girls successful her adulthood which showed the ‘amount of bulls**t you dealth with’.

Before paying homage to the value of pistillate relation models successful the media, arsenic Victoria served for her increasing up.

After the large occurrence of Netflix’s documentary, Beckham, astir the beingness of the erstwhile England footballer, Victoria is acceptable to get the aforesaid treatment.

It volition travel the media property implicit her clip successful the spotlight ‘from Spice Girls superstardom in the ‘90s to modern fashion maven’.

The synopsis added: ‘Her Posh Spice days whitethorn beryllium down her, but contiguous Beckham is connected a travel to physique a manner empire — and now, fans volition beryllium capable to spot the communicative down it all.’

And offers ‘exclusive entree to Victoria, her family, and those closest to her’ and get ‘up and idiosyncratic with the erstwhile popular prima arsenic she juggles her concern and household life’.

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