--- title: David Beckham's Daughter Had a Very Royal Birthday Party description: Harper Seven Beckham, daughter of Victoria and David, got to partake in a tea party at Buckingham Palace while celebrating her 6th birthday. canonical: https://time.com/4851742/david-beckham-birthday-buckinham-palace/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-10T18:25:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:45:15.455Z og:title: David Beckham's Daughter Partied at the Palace for Her Birthday og:description: Featuring a guest appearance from an actual princess at Buckingham Palace og:url: https://time.com/4851742/david-beckham-birthday-buckinham-palace/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2cd3ffc12481e029/6988d5147cdbac25fbd5921b/harper-beckham-david-beckham.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2964 og:image:height: 1667 og:image:alt: Celebrity Sightings in New York City - February 14, 2016 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: David Beckham's Daughter Partied at the Palace for Her Birthday twitter:description: Featuring a guest appearance from an actual princess at Buckingham Palace twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2cd3ffc12481e029/6988d5147cdbac25fbd5921b/harper-beckham-david-beckham.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # David Beckham's Daughter Naturally Enjoyed a Princess Birthday Party at Buckingham Palace > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by James Devaney/GC Images) James Devaney—GC Images  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jul 10, 2017 6:25 PM UTC Life is good when you’re [Harper Seven Beckham](http://time.com/3911388/david-beckham-daughter-soccer/), the newly six-year-old daughter of famous football star [David](http://motto.time.com/4653323/david-victoria-beckham-wedding-vows/) and former Posh Spice [Victoria](http://time.com/4720357/victoria-beckham-james-corden-mannequin/). It’s so good, in fact, that on your birthday you get to make a casual visit to Buckingham Palace for a tea party, replete with an appearance from a real-life princess, [Eugenie, ](http://time.com/4364214/queen-elizabeth-birthday-celebration/)daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York. On Monday, proud dad David documented his daughter’s excursion to the seat of British royalty on his Instagram, posting three photos of their outing, with friends and grandma completing the squad. Victoria also posted her own image from the day of Harper bedecked in an Elsa gown, from the Disney movie [_Frozen._](http://motto.time.com/4468221/charlize-theron-son-elsa-frozen/) “Just to be clear this wasn’t a case of the palace opening the gates for Harper’s birthday party,” he clarified in one of the captions. “This was a tea party where us and other guests were invited, so it was a beautiful thing to do with my mum, Harper, plus a few school friends.” He noted that they were “honored” to be there to celebrate for their youngest child. The Beckhams have three other children, all boys: Brooklyn, 18, Romeo, 14, and Cruz, 12\. But it looks like the boys, who have flirted with gigs in [photography, modeling, and music](https://www.instagram.com/p/BWW7tRuFLwp/?taken-by=victoriabeckham), didn’t star in the photos of the celebration — not this time, anyway. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4851742/david-beckham-birthday-buckinham-palace/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4851742/david-beckham-birthday-buckinham-palace/"},"headline":"David Beckham's Daughter Naturally Enjoyed a Princess Birthday Party at Buckingham Palace","datePublished":"2017-07-10T18:25:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:45:15.455Z","description":"Harper Seven Beckham, daughter of Victoria and David, got to partake in a tea party at Buckingham Palace while celebrating her 6th birthday.","url":"https://time.com/4851742/david-beckham-birthday-buckinham-palace/","keywords":["Newsfeed","royals","David Beckham"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2cd3ffc12481e029/6988d5147cdbac25fbd5921b/harper-beckham-david-beckham.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2cd3ffc12481e029/6988d5147cdbac25fbd5921b/harper-beckham-david-beckham.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Celebrity Sightings in New York City - February 14, 2016","caption":"Celebrity Sightings in New York City - February 14, 2016","creditText":"James Devaney—GC Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4851742/david-beckham-birthday-buckinham-palace/","name":"David Beckham's Daughter Naturally Enjoyed a Princess Birthday Party at Buckingham Palace"}}]}] ```