Mel B attended a very prestigious ceremony at Buckingham Palace yesterday (May 5) that many would be envious of. But the former Spice Girl revealed that as she was handed the MBE from none other than Prince William, she wasn't even wearing any pants.
The 46-year-old singer was given the gong for her work as a patron of domestic abuse charity Women's Aid, rather than for her music achievements. Melanie Brown became involved in the charity after leaving her abusive ten-year marriage to TV producer Stephen Belafonte in 2017.
After receiving her MBE yesterday, she told The Sun: “ William told me, ‘I’m so delighted that it’s me giving you this’. "And he asked, ‘Will you get the Spice Girls back together?’. I told him I was having dinner with Victoria that evening and he said, ‘Oh good, I’ll work on David then’.”
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Mel was accompanied to the palace by her mum Andrea. They both wore dresses by Spice Girl-turned-designer Victoria Beckham who even flew back from Miami so she could personally handpick their outfits.
Referencing her outfit choice, Mel quipped that she was “stark, b****ck naked” underneath the figure-hugging red dress. She said: “Victoria asked me, ‘Will you wear nipple covers? I said, ‘Why bother?’ “When it came to the part where Prince William had to pin the MBE on, he asked for a female official to do it. I didn’t think I had that much cleavage on show!”
Melanie added how during her days as a Spice Girl, she often saw young Princes William and Harry as they were growing up.
She recalled: “I remember once around the time the Spice World movie came out we were helicoptered into Highgrove and we hung out with them, eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
“I think William thought I was receiving the MBE for being a Spice Girl, but I told him that it was for my work on domestic violence. He wanted to hear all about it.
“In fact, I felt guilty holding up the queue because we spent so long talking. I told him I had been in an abusive marriage for ten years, which I finally got out of by the skin of my teeth.
“And then I wrote a book all about it and became a patron for Women’s Aid. I told him that when I wrote my autobiography, people were not really talking about things like coercive control, that it was a dark, taboo topic. I explained that I often visit a women’s refuge in Leeds near where I live.
“He said, ‘That must be really fulfilling for you to talk about it and help women’. I said that my story is exactly like so many of the women’s I meet and that I managed to get out and survive.
“It was a really good conversation and a very special moment for me." The investiture was the first to be held at Buckingham Palace since the pandemic.
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