Brooklyn, 27, and the 31-year-old actress attended the bash in 2021, 2022 and 2023, and he also went solo in 2024.
Wintour has long been friends with David and Victoria and regularly attends Victoria’s fashion shows.
‘Anna is exceedingly loyal,” said a fashion show, “She’s been close friends with the Beckhams for years … she’s the first one in the door at Victoria’s shows. And while it was rumored Brooklyn and Nicola were invited last year, that never happened. Anna protects her friends.”
Wintour event flew to London to attend the October 2023 premiere of David’s Netflix doc-series, “Beckham” — and, as we recently reported, is now working with the doc’s director, Fisher Stevens, after meeting him through her the Beckhams. Stevens was on hand this week to record footage of Wintour and Vogue editor Chloe Malle getting ready for the Met Gala.
“[Prince] Harry and Meghan have never been invited,” confirmed a source of the couple, who have publicly complained about their treatment behind palace walls.
“Even if they were,” the source added. “I don’t think they’d want to pay to go.”
During the queen and King Charles’ US tour last week, Dame Anna, 76, greeted Queen Camilla 78, with kisses on both cheeks at a reception at the New York Public Library.
The Vogue doyenne is close friends with the royal family and visited Camilla at Clarence House in London in February to mark the opening of London Fashion Week. Wintour has long backed Camilla and Charles, famously writing of the queen in 2002 that she looked “marvelous” and “What a difference being in love makes.”
There have also long been rumors that Markle, 44, irked Wintour by cozying up to then British Vogue editor Edward Enninful, who had the Duchess of Sussex guest-edit a 2019 issue — only for the two to fall out in 2022 after she didn’t get the September cover of the magazine.
Wintour, meanwhile, is also personally responsible for inviting Blake Lively to the ball and seated the actress at her own table, we can reveal, just hours after Lively settled her $60 million court case with her “It Ends With Us” co-star and director Justin Baldoni.
