Sir Keir Starmer may have signed off on Sir David Beckham‘s knighthood from the King last year, but he won’t take sides after Brooklyn Beckham‘s ‘nuclear’ Instagram attack on his parents.
The eldest son of Sir David and Lady Beckham has said he does not want to reconcile with them over a rift involving his wife Nicola.
But while the Prime Minister has refused to be drawn on the row, Downing Street has hinted that he hopes the warring Beckhams can meet halfway and make amends.
Today the Prime Minister’s official spokesman was asked about the ongoing public row that has torn apart the British dynasty.
The No 10 spokesman said Brooklyn’s decision to go public with his gripes with his mother and father were a private matter for the family, but added: ‘The Prime Minister has always been clear that diplomacy is very important.’
The PM’s diplomatic plea to the Beckhams came as:
Sir Keir Starmer is a big believer in diplomacy, his spokesman has said, after he was asked about the feud between the Beckhams
But the PM won’t comment on the details of the rift between Brooklyn, Nicola, Sir David and Lady Beckham
Last night Brooklyn Beckham has sensationally accused his parents of ‘controlling’ him and trying to ‘ruin’ his marriage to Nicola Peltz.
In a bombshell statement he launched a blistering attack on his mother and father last night, accusing them of ‘disrespecting’ his wife and being concerned with ‘promotion and endorsements above all else’.
In a lengthy Instagram post, Brooklyn, 26, claimed his family had ‘controlled narratives’ and perpetuated ‘countless lies’ to ‘preserve their own façade’ – with ‘Brand Beckham’ always the priority.
Having stayed quiet for months as the family feud raged behind the scenes, Brooklyn said he now had ‘no choice’ but to ‘stand up for myself for the first time in my life’, adding he does not want to ‘reconcile’ with his family.
The problems began, he claims, in the lead up to his star-studded 2022 wedding to billionaire’s daughter Ms Peltz, 31, during which his parents had been ‘trying endlessly to ruin my relationship’ – a situation which ‘hasn’t stopped’. He claims fashion designer Victoria, 51, ‘cancelled’ plans to make his bride’s dress at the ‘11th hour’ despite her being ‘excited’ to wear the design – ‘forcing her to urgently find a new dress’.
This is contrary to claims that Ms Peltz decided to wear a dress by another designer at the last minute, upsetting Posh.
Brooklyn also says his mother ‘hijacked’ the first dance with his wife, instead staging a dance between mother and son, during which she ‘danced very inappropriately on me in front of everyone.’ He said: ‘I’ve never felt more uncomfortable or humiliated in my entire life.’
Another bone of contention, he claims, was that he had decided to sit his grandmother Sandra – Sir David’s mother – on the top table with Ms Peltz’s grandmother.
His parents, as well as Ms Peltz’s, had separate tables adjacent to the top table. ‘During the wedding planning, my mum went so far as to call me “evil” because Nicola and I chose to include my Nanny Sandra, and Nicola’s Naunni at our table, because they both didn’t have their husbands,’ he said.
Brooklyn insisted that his and Ms Peltz’s recent vow renewal was, ‘so we could create new memories of our wedding day that bring us joy and happiness, not anxiety and embarrassment’.
More tensions arose when his parents ‘repeatedly pressured and attempted to bribe me into signing away the rights to my name,’ he claims.
Brooklyn’s six page statement
Brooklyn went on to address his wedding to Nicola, claiming there had been repeated attempts to ruin their relationship
Brooklyn claimed: ‘The night before our wedding, members of my family told me that Nicola was “not blood” and “not family”
‘My wife has been consistently disrespected by my family, no matter how hard we’ve tried to come together as one’, he continued
‘The narrative that my wife controls me is completely backwards. I have been controlled by my parents for most of my life’, he went on
And referencing the devastating Los Angeles wildfires of January 2025, Brooklyn revealed: ‘We’ve gone out of our way for years to show up and support at every fashion show, every party, and every Press activity to show “our perfect family”. But the one time my wife asked for my mum’s support to save displaced dogs during the LA fires, my mum refused.’
Brooklyn also claims that his mother tried to disrupt his relationship with Ms Peltz by ‘repeatedly’ inviting ‘women from my past into our lives in ways that were clearly intended to make us both uncomfortable’.
This is likely to refer to when his brother Romeo, 23, started dating Kim Turnbull – a model previously linked to Brooklyn. She attended some family events before they split last year, but later reconciled. For his father’s lavish 50th birthday celebrations last year, Brooklyn claims he and his wife travelled to London with the intention to meet up – but his parents refused unless they attended David’s star-studded party, or met without Ms Peltz.
‘We still travelled to London for my dad’s birthday and were rejected for a week as we waited in our hotel room trying to plan quality time with him,’ he said.
‘He refused all of our attempts, unless it was at his big birthday party with a hundred guests and cameras at every corner. When he finally agreed to see me, it was under the condition that Nicola wasn’t invited. It was a slap in the face. Later, when my family travelled to LA, they refused to see me at all.’
And despite claims by his brother Cruz, 20, that he had blocked his entire family on social media, Brooklyn insisted it was actually his brothers who blocked him.
Devastatingly, Brooklyn said that, contrary to the happy family narrative always presented in the Press and on social media, he ‘grew up with overwhelming anxiety’ having been ‘controlled by my parents for most of my life’.
He slammed the ‘performative social media posts, family events and inauthentic relationships’ that have been a ‘fixture of the life I was born into’.
He added: ‘For the first time in my life, since stepping away from my family, that anxiety has disappeared.’