The New Yorker:

They put their births and marriages in the spotlight, selling tabloid photos and making Netflix documentaries. Would their estrangement be any different?

By Anna Russell

This past week, after the semi-famous Brooklyn Beckham confirmed, via Instagram, a long-simmering rift with his very famous parents, people urgently wanted to know: What happened at his wedding? The intrigue stemmed from Brooklyn’s contention that his parents, David and Victoria Beckham, the English former football star and Spice Girl, had tried to ruin his relationship with his wife, Nicola Peltz, before their marriage, in 2022. In his post, Brooklyn accused his parents of pressuring him to sign away the rights to his family name in the weeks leading up to the wedding. He claimed that they referred to Peltz as “not blood” and “not family,” that they disrespected her, and that Victoria, who runs her own fashion label, had cancelled making Peltz’s dress “at the eleventh hour.” (Peltz wore Valentino haute couture instead.)

Most gripping, for those following along online—in the U.K., that was pretty much everyone—he described how his mother “hijacked” the couple’s first dance. “In front of our 500 wedding guests, Marc Anthony called me to the stage, where in the schedule was planned to be my romantic dance with my wife but instead my mum was waiting to dance instead,” Brooklyn wrote. “She danced very inappropriately on me in front of everyone. I’ve never felt more uncomfortable or humiliated in my entire life.” He went on to say that the experience was so distressing that he and Peltz recently renewed their vows, “so we could create new memories of our wedding day that bring us joy and happiness, not anxiety and embarrassment.”

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