Prince Harry and Brooklyn Beckham

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Not a good look for our British families

The Beckhams’ once-flawless brand and PR machine have finally taken a dent.

Will Brooklyn be tempted to write a tell all or speak out, like Harry? Surely the Beckhams have their own skeletons, and you can bet the media will bait Brooklyn until he cracks.

Makes me feel somewhat better about my own dysfunctional family.

I feel for David though, his 50th will have been overshadowed by his son. Give, give, give and in return their first born cannot put differences aside to attend.

AIBU to think that parents who give their kids everything just end up creating entitled brats who are so detached from reality, add little to society and throw it all back in their poor parents faces. should there not be some kind of study, research or guidance on how to stop this happening. The world has enough problems.

Me either.

It’s front page news. I had no idea until Piers Morgan went for it.

https://x.com/piersmorgan/status/1918982006521676271?s=46&t=oToxwXstY3oZDUUlxB0jmA

Then I did some digging and it is indeed headline news this evening on ahem the Daily Mail with 2k comments.

Zzzzzzzzzzzz

Just so everyone knows, I called my dad and wished him a happy birthday and sent him a present and card. Wouldn't want the press getting hold of it and assuming there was a family feud.

Oh thank god, I thought Trump had infected your family life too 😅

This is going to be such a brilliant thread I can tell.

BB won’t do a tell all book- doesn’t need the money and don’t think he’s actually that’interested in the fame. He’ll come back to the beckham clan. I reckon Nicole just doesn’t like leaving her family.

It was a close call

I honestly can't believe people actually care one way or the other whether David Beckham's son wished him a happy birthday or not!

All this does it make me feel sympathy for children unlucky enough to be born to famous parents. One sure way to have a messed up life : being in the media spotlight from when you are even conceived.

My bet is that Mrs Brooklyn is pregnant and not able to travel. If he’d come on his own there’d have been speculation about their marriage - can’t win either way. He probably sent Daddy David a Moonpig.com
As for Harry, be quiet, keep it private.

Interesting theory but my own personal theory is her eating disorder is too serious to allow pregnancy.

we shall see though!

Ignore all the snippy comments, OP.

I have just read about DB's birthday celebrations and I agree that it is very sad that there appears to be a quite significant rift in the family and that it possibly stems from something to do with Brooklyn's wife (not apportioning blame here, by the way. I suspect, as always, it's a complex, possibly two-way, thing).

Whilst I don't agree this is a "British" problem, it is obviously difficult when any two families join together via marriage and it hits the buffers.

I hope they can work it out - if one believes the SM hype, the Beckhams have always come across as a tight-knit bunch.

I haven’t wished my mum a happy birthday or attended her birthday celebrations in years. She moved and didn’t even tell me where she’d gone to. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I’m not sad about that. And I’m not entitled or spoiled. Not everyone has a close and loving relationship with their family.

That said, how can you know someone didn’t wish someone a happy birthday? Because it wasn’t public on social media? And how do you know he chose not to attend? There could have been an emergency at home and he couldn’t leave, or maybe he wasn’t invited.

My mum got married 15 years ago, abroad, 8 hour flight away, and I wasn’t invited (she only told me a couple days before that she was even getting married). Friends and neighbours were invited, but neither she nor her partner invited their children or grandchildren. As it happens, all of us are NC now (for reasons unrelated to not being invited to a wedding). It’s often very hard for people on the outside to understand the dynamics of dysfunctional families, especially when the picture they present, on social media, etc, is a very glossy happy fake one. I’m not British btw and nor is my family.

Who saw the literally amazing article about the evidence submitted to court from their wedding planner about what went on behind the scenes? Brutal and amazing 😂

Except for the fact that it has been reported that they have in fact travelled to the UK this week.

I should have been more specific that it’s not a good look for two of our most famous British families, not general British families.

yes undoubtedly, when you read the story, there is something going on. Whatever it is, my opinion is that you don’t snub your Dads 50th party. After all David has done for him.

I have a terribly dysfunctional family. I even said it in my post.

It’s just amazing two very privileged young men in the same weekend have made front page news for being somewhat estranged from their families, incredible given the incredible wealth, luxuries, lack of jobs and real world problems they have been afforded.

I have not seen this article, I feel like I need to see it though.

Well MY daughter caught three trains to be with me on my 50th (preening and bragging) we are not millionaires though so maybe that's where issues creep in

Oh come on, the Beckhams are ‘inlaws’ of course BB and his wife didn’t wish David a happy birthday, attend any celebrations or visit regularly 😉….

(bet Nicole has been taking advice from MN… and if she has they are, of course, NC)

Why are you so invested?

What difference does it make that they are privileged? Are you saying they don’t have the right to complain if they feel they have been treated poorly because they are well off?

My take:

V&B love having all their family around them

Nicole is used to being around her family and gets pouty at their ‘demands’, as she doesn’t want to be swept into the Beckham Bosom. She refuses to attend all the family do’s this side of the pond and Brooklyn stays by her side. V&D get pouty back.

Then factor in that B&N allegedly don’t like Cruz or Romeo’s (can’t remember which) girlfriend as she used to go out with Brooklyns mate Rocco Ritchie.

Add on the fact that the Beckham family are very vocal with the ‘Happy Birthdays’ on social media (usually with a video of unseen, professionally edited, ‘behind the scenes’ family moments) and it is unusual for Brooklyn not to have created a ‘We Love You Dad’ post or attending the old man’s many birthday bashes.

It’s a tabloid dream!

Oh for goodness sake, what does it have to do with you if he did or didn't wish his father a happy birthday.

"After all David has done for him"

That's a dysfunctional family phrase if ever I heard one.

We know nothing about what it is like to be their children. I have noticed Victoria looks on the verge of tears a lot lately, which is sad. We don't know and we shouldn't make things worse by speading conspiracies.

Interesting suggested parallels, OP but IMO both will be floated family lifeboats in the event of a marital splt.