Of course brand ‘Beckham’ ruled - that is what kept food on the table and a roof over their heads after football and a girl band had ended. The public feasted off it, fed by the media, and equally so has the brand. Some parents forget that their little babies eventually grow up and start to reflect on their childhood, reference Philip Larkin’s poem.
The brand needs to continue because they have all become used to a certain lifestyle that completely revolves around money and (questionable) social ‘status’. How could they survive now without their large houses, cars, yachts, bank accounts? It must continue at all costs.
Recollections will vary: there is Brooklyn’s version told from his and his wife’s bias, his parent’s version told from their bias, and the ‘truth’ being somewhere in the middle. None of them are intellectually the sharpest knives in the drawer, but they know how to keep the money rolling in, even at the expense of loving relationships.
It is all very sad, but is continues to feed the ravenous social media monster and for people to pick over the bones of it. There is money to be had, even if only by news outlets and also to keep the players relevant.
Brooklyn has married ‘well’ and the very privileged lifestyle within which he was raised, will continue through his wife being ‘daddy’s little rich girl’. I too wonder if he had been so vocal had he married Chantelle who works at Aldi, and whose dad is on Universal Credit? 🤷♂️. Even so, there would still be the MIL/DIL dynamic.
Brooklyn is a not-particularly-talented spoiled little rich boy now married to a spoiled little rich girl. His parents’ money no longer ‘controls’ him, but he needs to ‘keep sweet’ with his wife and her family in order to continue his accustomed lifestyle. His parents need to keep the brand afloat … but the cost is ‘family’. All very sad, as there are no pockets in shrouds and your grave may be fancy, but your flesh and bones still go the same way as a pauper. There are no real winners in this game.