There’s trouble at the Firm. No, not that one – although, now you mention it, that one’s not doing particularly well either – the other one. The one formed sometime in early 1997, when a footballer took a Spice Girl on a date and a dynasty was born.
For months, the previously unbreakable Beckham clan have found themselves in a very public spat, the trajectory of which feels rather familiar. David and Victoria’s son, Brooklyn, has appeared to be caught between his glamorous American wife and his family, as rumours of hostility to said family have swirled. Brooklyn married Nicola Peltz, an actor and the daughter of a billionaire, in 2022; since then, relations have appeared to get worse. He was nowhere to be seen in his mother’s 2025 Netflix documentary, nor at his father’s 50th birthday party, nor in the many happy-families social media posts that the Beckhams are wont to create.
None of the family have said a word about this – yet stories in the press have abounded about feuds and lawyer letters. Now, Brooklyn has finally broken his silence in a long statement on Instagram, claiming that these stories were leaked by his own family to control the narrative and maintain the upper hand, and explicitly saying: “I do not want to reconcile with my family.” He has accused his parents of being controlling, of controlling the media and of creating an environment that has caused him significant anxiety. In a family rift, who’s to say what really happened or who’s in the right – but Brooklyn is certainly onto something when he says the Beckhams are a family that “values public promotion and endorsements above all else”.
The Beckhams at their Netflix premiere (Photo: Karwai Tang/WireImage)Specifics of ruined first dances and rejected wedding dresses aside, the parallels with the Royal Family are too plentiful to ignore. Son born into a heady combination of unfathomable wealth and rigid, oppressive expectations rejects his family in adulthood, having grown tired of press obsession, tight image management and inauthentic projections of harmony (for the Royals, a stiff upper lip; for the Beckhams, aspirational matching pyjamas). A beautiful young woman from the land of the free shows him another way to live. She has her own stuff going on. She doesn’t need his fame or money. Crucially, she doesn’t fully appreciate the significance of his family in the culture of his country. His new perspective bursts the bubble on the Firm that has made him everything he is.
There are many morals to this – yet unfinished – tale, chief among them that weddings tend to send people round the twist. But there are two points in the stories of both Harry and Brooklyn that are worth unpacking. The first is that the British public love structures and institutions, and feel aghast when their image of them is punctured. And the second is that both Harry and Brooklyn have overestimated the extent to which they can detach themselves from those structures. Because as much as it would be lovely if everyone could simply decide exactly how they want to live and act on it without consequence, that has been proven not to be realistic.
Despite much online advice telling us to cut off difficult family members at the first twinge of discomfort, Brooklyn’s estrangement from the Beckhams has not gone down well on social media. “Spoilt”, “brat” and “liar” are just some of the words that have been floated. His ultra-privileged nepo-baby status and propensity to post about his ludicrously charmed life masks what is undoubtedly very real grief and turmoil; his lifestyle doesn’t preclude him from feeling difficult human feelings.
Harry and Meghan have struggled to find a public identity since leaving the Royal Family (Photo: Joshua Sammer/Getty)Yet, it seems much of the British public doesn’t see it that way – and, beyond his much-derided cooking videos, Brooklyn doesn’t have a huge amount to show for himself in his own right. How is he planning to sustain his life and profile without the mightily powerful backdrop of, as he called it, Brand Beckham? Presumably his wife’s fortune will help – but that’s not likely to fly with the British public either.
Brooklyn need only look to Prince Harry for evidence of how difficult it is. Six years after Harry and Meghan officially left their roles as working royals, they are not exactly short of cash, and yet they are still floundering for a public identity, with a slew of failed podcasts and television series at their feet. Meghan remains broadly despised, which, no matter how unfair, doesn’t help to settle the Sussexes’ image as a happy young family living their truth in California. Rather, when they’re not mocking Meghan’s vapid Netflix show, most of the headlines concern whisperings about their relationship with William, Charles, et al – and much of the UK is simply wondering when Harry will come to his senses and come back.
Because unlike America, we are a country that prefers a team to an individual. We vote for a party, not a president. And as much as we want to believe in social mobility, we are still deeply attached to the class system that, for better or worse, binds communities.
I do not believe in the monarchy, but Britain without it would be a very different place. Its closed doors and its rules and its façade and its dark underside are all part of our national fascination with structures, groups and belonging. When you think about it, it’s no wonder that David and Victoria – two people doing very well in their own right – were immediately even stronger together; that Brand Beckham – a modern, relatable version of the perfect family the royals have tried to model to their subjects for centuries – has proved such a success.
Whoever is in the right, if anyone is at all, it seems unlikely that Brooklyn is going to come out on top – at least not in the eyes of the bereft public, whose attachment to Brand Beckham runs a lot deeper than it seems.
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