The sporting star has revealed just how close he is to the royal family, as a hidden Sussexes detail re-emerges.

The World Economic Forum in Davos, the annual piste-adjacent glüwein-chugging get together of the ‘mine’s bigger’-private jet crowd makes for some strange bedfellows.

Mutual fund titans and Mick Jagger. Crypto evangelists and Charlize Theron. Shakira and a scattering of Scandi trade ministers.

Now, we have sometimes-undies model and lad who was once handy with a ball, David Beckham turning up in the Swiss mountain resort town to offer his thoughts on the European Central Bank’s restructuring of debt bond yields.

Oh I’m sorry, no. He was in Davos last week to receive a gong in his role as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and used the opportunity to enthuse about his relationship with Prince William, the Prince of Wales.

Former England’s football player and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador David Beckham used the opportunity n Davos to enthuse about his relationship with Prince William.

By the sounds of things, the tattooed sports star is so tight with the future King he’s the Wales family’s go-to for an airport lift next time an all-inclusive five-dayer to Magaluf out of Luton.

“Whenever the Prince of Wales sends me a message and says ‘I need you to do this, be there’ it is always a yes,” Beckham said of his charity work with William and that one time the prince asked him to come around and help him knock up an Ikea bookcase.

“Over the years, I’ve done a lot with the Prince of Wales. I’ve always been there, when he asked me to get involved with things.

“Whether it be veterans, whether it be the London Air Ambulance Service … to be involved in that, has always been a yes for me.”