Several stars joined King Charles III to mark a special occasion.

On Thursday, the British monarch hosted the King‘s Foundation’s annual awards ceremony at St. James’s Palace in London. The organization is marking its 35th year, People magazine reported.

David Beckham, Kate Winslet and Meryl Streep were among the famous faces spotted at the event, which featured 200 guests. Stanley Tucci and Penny Lancaster were also in attendance.

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Beckham’s appearance is notable as the 50-year-old is reportedly gearing up to be knighted by the king. His wife, Victoria Beckham, would then be known as “Lady Beckham.” The co-owner of Inter Miami CF and Salford City became an ambassador for the foundation in 2024.

Fox News Digital reached out to a spokesperson for the Beckhams and Buckingham Palace for comment.

According to People, the charity has trained more than 115,000 students in traditional craft and environmental education over its 35-year tenure. The outlet noted that it has positively affected more than 500,000 lives through sustainable urban planning.

Raymond Blanc, left, Alan Titchmarsh and Penny Lancaster attend the King’s Foundation Awards ceremony on the 35th anniversary. Lancaster is married to Rod Stewart. (Chris J. Ratcliffe – WPA Pool/Getty Images)

The King’s Foundation was begun by Charles, 76, in 1990 when he was the Prince of Wales. His goal was to support “communities where people, places and the planet can coexist harmoniously.” 

Today, the charity offers educational courses for almost 15,000 students annually, overseas projects revitalizing communities and historic buildings, and health and well-being programs for nearly 2,000 people every year.

Meryl Streep and Kate Winslet have met King Charles on previous occasions. (Chris J. Ratcliffe/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

The king presented the King Charles III Harmony Award to Professor Muhammad Yunus from Bangladesh, People reported. The 2006 Nobel Peace laureate has founded more than 50 social business companies and encouraged sustainable projects.

In 2024, Beckham announced in a statement that he was eager to work with the foundation to help inspire young people in his home country.

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Meryl Streep, David Beckham and Kate Winslet were all smiles as they were welcomed by King Charles III. (Chris J. Ratcliffe – WPA Pool/Getty Images)

“I’m excited to be working with The King’s Foundation and to have the opportunity to help raise awareness of the charity’s work,” Beckham said at the time.

“I’ve always been keen to help young people to expand their horizons, and I’m particularly looking forward to supporting the Foundation’s education programs and its efforts to ensure young people have greater access to nature,” he shared.

“Having developed a love for the countryside, I’m also on a personal mission to learn more about rural skills which [are] so central to the Foundation’s work,” he added.

David Beckham, Meryl Streep and Kate Winslet stand by King Charles III during the King’s Foundation Awards ceremony. (Chris J. Ratcliffe/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

The star received an OBE (Order of the British Empire) in 2003. The Guardian also pointed out that the former Manchester United player was put forward to receive a knighthood over 10 years ago when he was nominated in 2011.

In addition to playing for England’s national soccer team over 100 times, Beckham has been recognized for his charitable work with children from underprivileged backgrounds, People magazine reported.

“It is utterly ridiculous that it has taken until now to honor David Beckham, who is something of a phenomenon, with a knighthood,” royal expert Richard Fitzwilliams previously told Fox News Digital.

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David Beckham bows and shakes hands with King Charles III. (Chris J. Ratcliffe/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

“He has done a great deal for charity, especially UNICEF, and was involved in bringing the Olympic Games to London in 2012,” he shared. “The value of his endorsement is simply amazing. From his tattoos to his footwear, there is a fascination with everything about him. His wife, Victoria, who also received an OBE for her work as a designer, was a member of the Spice Girls, one of the most successful girl bands of all time.”

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Just last month, Beckham joined Charles at the Royal Horticultural Society’s Chelsea Flower Show in London, People reported. The outlet noted that Beckham was wearing a rose that was named in the king’s honor. 

He previously attended the King Foundation’s celebratory dinner at Highgrove House, the king’s family residence, with Victoria, 51, in February.

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EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning actor Gary Oldman was awarded a knighthood Friday in King Charles’ Birthday Honours. In an exclusive interview conducted ahead of the official announcement, the star told Deadline: ”It’s actually sort of mind-boggling. I’m gobsmacked.”

During our interview, I joked that he has served Queen, King and country as Gary Oldman and onscreen in such roles as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour, which won him his Academy Award in 2018; and as fictional British intelligence officer George Smiley in film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy; and as the Falstaffian Jackson Lamb in Apple’s Slow Horses.

“Yeah, I’ve served the crown,” he said laughing down the line from his home in Palm Springs.

Many of his greatest screen roles were filmed in the UK, including Sid and Nancy, Prick Up Your Ears, Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy and the Harry Potter movies.

In an official statement released to coincide with news of his knighthood, Oldman commented: “To be included in the long lineage of extraordinary actors, artists, and others who hold this title fills me with indescribable humility and pride. It is emotional, humbling and flattering all at the same time to be recognized amongst them.”

Oldman told us that he was referring to the likes of Sir Anthony Hopkins, Sir Michael Caine and contemporaries Sir Daniel Day-Lewis and Sir Kenneth Branagh, among others, and that he also had in mind acting giants like Lord [Laurence] Oliver, Dame Maggie Smith and Dame Judi Dench.

When his Slow Horses co-star Jonathan Pryce was knighted in 2021, Oldman told how he saw him on the set and offered his congratulations. “And he looked at me and he said, ‘Oh, yes, yes. I’ve been elevated.’”’S

Oldman said that when he once chatted to Hopkins about his knighthood, and the Silence of the Lambs legend noted that he only used the honorific prefix when he’s in the U.S. “Tony said that he only uses it in America because they expect it,” Oldman added. “Actually they’re rather offended if you don’t use it.”

Only those closest to Oldman have been “in the know” about his knighthood, he said. His longtime business partner and manager Douglas Urbanski, he said, “has already started calling me SG, as in Sir Gary.”

Or, Sir Gary of Palm Springs, I suggest. He liked the sound of that, he said with a gentle laugh.

Oldman still has a British passport and is a U.S. green card holder. He resides in the U.S. with wife Gisele Schmidt, a photographic artist. 

His thoughts soon turned to his late mother, Kathleen, who died at 99, three months after he received his Oscar.

“She was 99, and she was of that generation where, years ago, I remember her talking about getting the letter from the Queen when you reached a hundred,” he said. “And it was a thing that once you started to get up there in age, it was a thing that generation used to talk about. And my mum wanted that letter from the Queen. 

“But yeah, I thought about her because I think she would’ve been absolutely chuffed with this. But in terms of just really processing it, I haven’t had a minute really.”

Oldman said he’s chuffed himself because Slow Horses has “really started to gather some momentum here in the U.S.” after four seasons. “I think it’s truly international now,” he said.

Season 5 on Apple TV+ starts in September. Season 6 is already in the can, and Season 7 will begin shooting in the UK.in late September or early October.

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Based on a series of novels by Mick Herron, Slow Horses is about a group of outcast MI5 domestic intelligence operatives under the leadership of Oldman’s Jackson Lamb. It has a contemporary London setting, but its bones are classic Shakespearean in its plotting, humor and fulsome character development. You can read Herron’s Slow Horses novels over and over, and it’s the same with the show. Each viewing reveals a deeper understanding and devotion to Lamb and his motley crew.

“That is truly the wonderful gift that keeps on giving,” Oldman marveled. “I just adore the hell out of it, and the people. It is just such a wonderful thing really to be part of.”

He suggested that perhaps the show has taken off because the characters are “people that we can relate to.”

Continuing his thought, Oldman said: ”We are so sort of contaminated with the idea of the spy world being and casinos and Aston Marti’s that I think it connects with people because the people in it are ordinary people who do heroic things, without any gizmos.”

Fellow Slow Horses castmates include Jack Lowden, Kristen Scott Thomas (already a Dame), Rosalind Eleazar, Saskia Reeves, Christopher Chung Kadiff Kirwan and Ruth Bradley.

Recently, he returned to the stage after a 37-year absence to star in and direct a production of Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape at the York Theatre Royal. He said that playing the role “holds a very special place, well, in a long career,” adding, “I’ve got the taste now, you see. So I think I’ll do some more.”

Although, he conceded, he has missed performing many of the great classical roles because ”there are many roles that I’m too old for now,” but there are still many more to conquer.

“So that would be something, and I’m looking forward to it. I realized how much I missed it because over the years, I read plays and considered doing them. … And I’ve just sort of been taken hostage by movies, and you look around and you think, ‘Oh, it’s 10 years since I was on stage.’ And then you turn around and go, ‘Oh, it’s 15,’ then it’s 20 years and so on.

But the theater conversation always has been there over the years. And so when I got there and got into that rehearsal room, I just thought: ‘Oh my God, I’ve missed this. I miss this so much.’ It wasn’t nerves, it was adrenaline and excitement. I missed that.”

Noting how he was born in New Cross and raised in other parts of South London, he said, “As we’d say in South London, I’ve got the flavour back.”

Oldman said that he’s still really British to the core. “When I work, my rider is very small,” he said. “I need a kettle, a cup — a mug will do — PG Tips tea bags and a packet of digestive biscuits. That’s all I need in the trailer.”

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