Speak of the devil. In comes the husband, with Cruz in hand. "Mummy, you were singing in the Spice Girls!" the toddler says. They've just returned from taking his big brothers to school.

"Were you listening to the Spice Girls in Daddy's car?" Victoria asks.

"Yes!" He's running back and forth—zip, zip, zip—a Cruz missile. The whole family is going on the Spice Girls' 40-date reunion tour beginning December 2. "I wanted my children to see that Mummy was a pop star," Beckham says. "It was the last opportunity for them to stand in a crowd full of people screaming for the Spice Girls."

She introduces her husband. A gay icon himself, he has a shy smile, a small voice, and a strong, leathery handshake. He sleeps covered in tattoos. Sweeping up Cruz, his Mini Me, he throws him over a shoulder and carries him off to the kitchen.

Meeting David was "completely love at first sight," Beckham says. "I remember it so clearly." The Spice Girls were at their zenith when she flew with Fuller to a Manchester United match. David had yet to wow the world with his way of bending the ball. But he wowed her. She gave him her phone number on her airline ticket stub. "And he told me he went home and wrote the number on so many other things in case he lost it," she says. "We found the ticket the other day!" They dated for months under the radar. "We drove around in his car and would sit in car parks and talk for hours and hours. We didn't need to go out for meals. We didn't need to go out for drinks. We just wanted to be together and get to know each other."

"It was a fascinating time," Fuller says. "She was Posh Spice, and David was just on the brink of being the biggest footballers in England. They were so in love and desperately keen to get married. I was the father figure in the group, so I was like, `Take it slow.' But Victoria was just so deliriously happy and determined."

And you know what that means. "They have a unique chemistry," Fuller says. "They've been through amazing and difficult times. They're like an island, but that's what makes them special. They keep each other on their toes. They're also critical of each other, pushing the other to be better."

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