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Brooklyn Beckham is engaged

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Bouledeneige · 11/07/2020 20:16

They've been dating 7 months and he's had a series of girlfriends.
Would you be happy if your 21 year old said they were engaged? Irrespective of who he is if he was my kid I would feel that he was too young and they'd not been together long enough. But what would I know?

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gotothecooler · 11/07/2020 21:45

For every person that says they got married at 21 and it doesn't last there is another who for married at 21 and it did last. Getting married at that age in itself is not a mistake. Getting married the the right person on the other hand? And that goes for any marriage at any age.

I wouldn't be bothered if mine decided to commit to one person at any age tbh. So long as the person was right for them.

pinkhousesarebest · 11/07/2020 21:45

What on earth is this girl doing with him would be my question, if I was VB. He seems a lost and desperate soul to me. Poor lad.

TheletterZ · 11/07/2020 21:46

I got engaged at 21 (having been together 2 years) and married at 23. Still married 20 years later.

Age isn’t the only factor is a happy long term relationship.

Doodar · 11/07/2020 21:47

Neither of them have a job, they will just live a privileged life together. She may be pregnant already.

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 11/07/2020 21:48

I was engaged at 21 to the 21 year old man I'd been in a relationship with for 5 months. We celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary soon. I'll not judge...

JamesArthursEyelashes · 11/07/2020 21:52

Neither of them have a job, they will just live a privileged life together. She may be pregnant already.

🤷🏻‍♀️ Maybe they will.... does it matter.

TomBradysLeftKneecap · 11/07/2020 21:53

I got engaged (and had my first child) at 21. He's now in his 20s and we are still very happily married and professionally successful. The two are not mutually exclusive.

That said, I find it interesting that Victoria has shared the news on her Instagram account and David hasn't. He is the KIng of the Overshare of his love for his kids.

katy1213 · 11/07/2020 21:57

She might come to earth with a bump when she realises it's all his parents' money, not his. I was looking at the body language on the DMail video - he was hiding his face from the press and she was revelling in every minute. Silly boy but I guess wealthy people have always known how to protect their sons from gold-digging blondes.

Blondiney · 11/07/2020 21:58

I was engaged at 21, married at 22, divorced at 23. Your 20s are meant to be an utter shitshow, aren't they? Grin

taraRoo · 11/07/2020 21:58

I sort of hope he finds happiness. He exactly set the world on fire. Seems to have a very shallow life being surrounded by models who blatantly wouldn't give him a second glance if he didn't have mega rich parents. Doesn't seem to have any of his own ambitions and I doubt he's taken seriously even if he did. That photo book he brought out pretty much ruined any chance he had of being a photographer. It can't be easy being celeb offspring so marrying another incredibly rich person who at leat isn't after your money is a good move. She might actually love him for him.

taraRoo · 11/07/2020 21:59

I sort of hope he finds happiness. He exactly set the world on fire. Seems to have a very shallow life being surrounded by models who blatantly wouldn't give him a second glance if he didn't have mega rich parents. Doesn't seem to have any of his own ambitions and I doubt he's taken seriously even if he did. That photo book he brought out pretty much ruined any chance he had of being a photographer. It can't be easy being celeb offspring so marrying another incredibly rich person who at leat isn't after your money is a good move. She might actually love him for him.

CambsAlways · 11/07/2020 21:59

He’s 21 for gods sake lol , his choice his life

1990shopefulftm · 11/07/2020 22:00

I got engaged at that age, we d been together over 2 years and lived together most of that time, we d had some deaths in our families and both gone through unemployment in that time so plenty of experience of getting through the difficult things in life as a team

So I don't think age is the issue at all , more if they ve had the discussions needed about the future and I think you only learn somethings about a person once you ve lived with them.

saltycat · 11/07/2020 22:01

Sorry but I do not care what he does.

Those who care need to check their inner being or something. Honestly. Such a non story.

trappedbytheangel · 11/07/2020 22:01

Presumably an attempt by mom and pop to get back in the limelight. Sad.

cosycatsocks · 11/07/2020 22:01

Well she is gorgeous and rich, but I suspect she is using him to raise her profile globally. She outclasses him totally.

AllTheUsernamesAreAlreadyTaken · 11/07/2020 22:04

So long as they paid for the wedding themselves, I’d keep my mouth shut.

bitofasleuth · 11/07/2020 22:05

I got married at 21.

They're young and in love - leave them alone.

2155User · 11/07/2020 22:07

Wow, how depressingly judgemental some people are.

IcedPurple · 11/07/2020 22:10

@KurriKawari

Hope the media leave them both alone.
His parents would hate that.
toastfiend · 11/07/2020 22:11

I was engaged at 21, married a month before my 22nd birthday. 6 years in now, one toddler DC, and, whilst we have our ups and downs, we're still very much in love, and very happy. Obviously I can't predict what's going to happen 20 years down the line, as far as I'm concerned right now we'll still be together, but I certainly don't think it was a mistake or I was "too young" at all. I don't think it's for everyone, no, but it's worked for me. I'm quite surprised by a lot of the responses here. I'm very grateful my parents were nothing but delighted and supportive.

saltycat · 11/07/2020 22:15

The obsession with so called celebreties really boils my blood.

Those who are obsessed with this news need to get a life TBH

Anything they do is engineered for publicity.

thegcatsmother · 11/07/2020 22:17

I was engaged at 19, married at 20, and we have our 34th wedding anniversary in September. I had been with dh 14 months when we got married, 6 when we got engaged. It can work.

roundandsideways · 11/07/2020 22:18

I think it's fine
Doubt it'll,last though. I was engaged at that age, married a year later, split up the following year

boomboom1234 · 11/07/2020 22:19

Wassaaay too young in my opinion.

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