✓ Pink bow for the Beckams Harper Seven is born

"I am proud and happy to announce the birth of our daughter Harper Seven Beckham. The baby weighs 7,10 pounds (around 3,4 kilos) and was born at 7,55 yesterday morning (Sunday 10 July, ed)", former England captain David Beckham wrote on his Facebook page. For his wife, the former Spice Girls Victoria is the fourth birth but the first much desired female, born at Cedars Sinai hospital in Los Angeles.

"Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz (the couple's first three children, ed) are happy to welcome their little sister to the family," the couple's spokesperson said in a statement.

The name chosen for the girl is particular. A friend of the couple explained to the Daily Mail: "Harper is an old English name (literally means she or he who plays the zither, ed) that Victoria has always liked. Seven, that is seven, is a very lucky number and the little girl she was born shortly after 7 in the morning, in the seventh month ".

Returning to Harper, according to the Daily Mail, it could be a tribute to the writer Harper Lee or even to the magazine Harper's bazaar of which Victoria has won a couple of covers. Literally the name means "she / he who plays the zither". In any case, it is a name in vogue among American celebrities, so they called their daughters Lisa Marie Presley (daughter of Elvis Presley) and actor Neil Patrick Harris. Consult the mymodernparents.com name database

The baby was born following a caesarean section like the brothers.

David Beckham, 35, and Victoria, 36, have been married since 1999 and live in Los Angeles, where Beckham plays in the Los Angeles Galaxy.