By Debbie McGoldrick

Who says Britain’s real royal couple, soccer star David Beckham and his wife Victoria, late of the Spice Girls, are all style and no substance?

The Beckhams offered up some Christmas cheer for Joshua Clarke, a little Co. Antrim boy, age three, in the form of a new power wheelchair, which will help him cope so much better with the disease he’s living with, spinal muscular dystrophy.

Besides going to parties and weddings, the Beckhams also oversee a children’s charity in their name. The group was contacted after Joshua’s parents were told that it would take up to a year for their son to receive a new wheelchair from the National Health Service.

Once the charity received word of the family’s plight, Victoria’s mother Jackie Adams personally called the Clarke family friend to deliver the news that the required wheelchair would be delivered in time for the holidays.

“Then out of the blue she received a telephone call from Victoria’s mum Jackie, saying the charity would fund a wheelchair,” Joshua’s mom Sarah told The Belfast Telegraph.

“We were just amazed when we heard the news. Joshua is a bit young to understand but he has test-driven a few wheelchairs and knows he’s getting one, which will help him get around.”