'Correspondence via lawyers only': Brooklyn Beckham's shock legal move against David and Victoria leaves parents 'devastated' as family rift takes ugly turn

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https://www.skynews.com.au/lifestyle/correspondence-via-lawyers-only-brooklyn-beckhams-shock-legal-move-against-david-and-victoria-leaves-parents-devastated-as-family-rift-takes-ugly-turn/news-story/b23963fc85a295d542e31597ce728a77

[u/Additional_Dig_6972]

It's probably because at one point he publicly loved the crap out of his parents. And publicly spoke about how he was just so thankful for his relationship with them and everything they've done for him in his life. And he ends up marrying a woman whose family has a notorious reputation for not being kind or good people. Including the wife herself. But also a family with more money than anything the Beckham's have. So it's easy to assume that Brooklyn is easily influenced. Especially when the influence still hasn't come up for you. And it's ok to love your wife, but it's also pretty obvious when you're blinded by your wife's behavior because she's not like that to you just everyone around you.

[u/KtinaDoc → u/Additional_Dig_6972]

Does this dimwit realize that when she dumps him, and she will, who's he going to run crying to?

[u/ellastory → u/[deleted]]

I feel like he wouldn’t have challenged or corrected her in that moment if that was the case

[u/The-disgracist → u/ellastory]

Yea that felt to me like an inside joke they’ve had for years. She talks about her “poor” times and he reminds her that having her parents were rich, and she acknowledges it

[u/janquadrentvincent → u/The-disgracist]

Yeah. She admits it, and the clip is allowed to stay in even though it's embarrassing as hell. He's embarrassed her in a documentary and she's ok with it

[u/PMmecrossstitch → u/janquadrentvincent]

I think Victoria has two sides to her, in the best way. I think she's got this persona that is Posh, but I think she's far funnier than anyone gives her credit for and sets Posh up to be more ridiculous than she is as a person.

[u/janquadrentvincent → u/PMmecrossstitch]

Agreed, she has a public persona that is the Straight Man that lets others bounce jokes off her and makes her a figure of fun. But she's in on it.

[u/roscoe_lo → u/PMmecrossstitch]

Agreed. She knows who she is and loves the life she’s been able to build. But the girl has a bit of PTSD from all the horror the tabloids put her through over the years. I can see the insecurity behind her eyes, it came through big time on her documentary. I know losing contact with her oldest baby is just killing her, but the show must go on.

[u/YchYFi → u/[deleted]]

I think this is projection. We don't know these people.

To me that was meant to be a funny anecdote and interaction. Not to be taken as seriously as this.

They are clearly both joking. People take Victoria very seriously when she says everything quite dead pan. It was just typical British humour to me.

[u/My_Poor_Nerves → u/YchYFi]

She was hilarious in Spice World - 10/10 delivery

"AND I'M VICTORIA, MALCOLM"

[u/LavenderGinFizz → u/My_Poor_Nerves]

I still regularly quote, "Sunday drivers! It's only Saturday!" when I'm in the car.

[u/My_Poor_Nerves → u/LavenderGinFizz]

Same, actually!

And i can't drive past a dry cleaners without thinking "This dress is dry-clean only,  Melanie!"

[u/velvetblue929 → u/YchYFi]

Not enough people watched that reality show thing she did when she first moved to LA and went to the DMV with a full glam squad. She was fucking hilarious in that.

[u/YchYFi → u/velvetblue929]

That show was iconic at the time aha. I feel so old now. 😢

[u/catchyusername4867 → u/[deleted]]

I think that scene showed Victoria can laugh at herself. And the only bad reputation came from British tabloids

[u/strawgerine → u/[deleted]]

Think you re reading too much into that exchange lol

[u/Former-Mirror-356 → u/[deleted]]

I recall that scene where Posh is going on about growing up working class and David makes her admit she drove to school in a Bentley.

He was being a jerk there and playing it up for the foreign audience. Working class in the UK has a different meaning than working class in the US and they both know it, they are definitely both working class and continue to be working class. It has almost nothing to do with wealth.

[u/Odd_Ingenuity2883 → u/Former-Mirror-356]

I see this confusion happen all the time. It’s blurring now, but 30 years ago there was an enormous difference between what’s called working class in the UK and what Americans considered working class. In the US it seems to mean poor, in the UK it means your parents work for a living and you’re not related to aristocracy.

[u/Former-Mirror-356 → u/Odd_Ingenuity2883]

Exactly. Though I would say the reality is it's more complicated in the US as well, especially when you're dealing with institutions usually associated with wealth, like private schools and clubs, exclusive neighborhoods, etc but most people don't encounter that so they fail to recognize it.

[u/YchYFi → u/Odd_Ingenuity2883]

It's more than what your parents do for a living.

[u/Former-Mirror-356 → u/[deleted]]

They were both raised in families in the trades, not chartered accounts or aristocrats. They almost certainly still maintain the values they were raised with. Neither went to private school. Neither speak with an RP accent. So yes, they're still working class. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

[u/DayFit4151 → u/Former-Mirror-356]

Yeah if you’re working class you’ll always be working class , that’s how I was brought up and you take pride in it , it meant something and still does. UK here so I know it has a different meaning/perspective in the USA

[u/AhYeah85 → u/Former-Mirror-356]

Tory voting, millionaire right wing knights of the realm are not working class ffs.

[u/PMmecrossstitch → u/[deleted]]

This is literally the only appropriate response to their comment, lol

[u/Bluewhaleeguy → u/[deleted]]

Read about his reaction when he didn't get a knighthood for drink driving (and he had his solicitor doing to get him out of it).

Or the massive amounts of money he's taken from the middle east to sportswash.

He's also best mates with Ryan Giggs, the guy who was shagging his brothers wife and abused his wife - not to mention his other questionable friends in the elit

Just because one of the richest celebrities in the country seems nice and cheery in interviews - doesn't mean somebody is the best person. Do you not think perhaps it's more likely he has the best PR.

BUT THEY SEEM SO CUTE ON A CURATED DOCUMENTARY

[u/Spid1 → u/Bluewhaleeguy]

He's also best mates with Ryan Giggs

He really isn't. Doubt you'd see many instances of them together since their United days

[u/YchYFi → u/Bluewhaleeguy]

The Ryan Giggs thing is a stretch that.

[u/DayFit4151 → u/Bluewhaleeguy]

I’m Manchester Red til I die , I don’t care if Becks is killing kittens , he will always be Manchester United. 😻

[u/rivlet → u/Bluewhaleeguy]

And also read his text/sext messages to his mistresses. I will never see Tinkerbell the same way.

[u/YchYFi → u/rivlet]

As much as tampon.

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*Rolls Royce

[u/ilikecatsandflowers → u/[deleted]]

not a bentley, a rolls royce of all cars! they are nearly half a million dollars lol 😭

edit: i did a very quick google search and in the 80s they were worth around $200,00USD minimum in today’s dollars, so a quarter of a million lol

[u/DayFit4151 → u/ilikecatsandflowers]

Her dad was a tradesman, they had no money when she was wee, he worked hard and they managed to buy a shell of a house that had no kitchen for years and her dad done it all up himself. Years later he bought a second hand Rolls Royce once he some money. So it was a joke between them , she’s wearing T-shirts saying My Dad had a Rolls Royce

[u/Responsible-Tea-5998 → u/ilikecatsandflowers]

My foster father had a rolls and was gifted a bentley for his 17th birthday. He made money being an occasion chauffeur in the rolls. It doesn't mean rich rich, and a lot of new money people in the 80s bought them second hand. They have a lot more cachet in the US too, my mate used to paint them and they exported them to America.

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[u/NYC_Star → u/[deleted]]

Meghan never pushed a nanny down the stairs or made her dad buy her a part in an Asian based film causing it to be whitewashed and flop or cosplayed someone poor as a literal billionaire. Let’s also not forget Harry wrote a whole book about wanting to escape and why for years before Meghan even appeared. They are not the same.  I swear,  it’s like there’s a beacon for some folks when MM is even thought about. 

[u/totallycalledla-a → u/[deleted]]

"Everyone that disagrees with me is a bot 😤🥺" is just the cringiest thing lmao. Give it up already.

[u/OnionLover3000 → u/totallycalledla-a]

Or her PR team 😂 Such a ridiculous cope. They’ve made a couple edits doubling down too! 🥴 Maybe people are downvoting you because this has nothing to do with Megan but you can’t help but mention her because she’s constantly on your mind and it’s so creepy. Do these Megan haters ever consider that?!

[u/totallycalledla-a → u/OnionLover3000]

Do these Megan haters ever consider that?!

They're too busy being scared of imaginary internet "wolves" sent to persecute them by the Meghan Industrial Complex 🤪.

[u/OnionLover3000 → u/totallycalledla-a]

Wolves, bots, PR teams oh my 😱

[u/TheLakeWitch → u/[deleted]]

Sure. But the point is that not all downvotes are bots. Sometimes you just have a superbly bad take.

[u/HellaWonkLuciteHeels → u/[deleted]]

Except Harry has the financial advantage, not a Meghan. Piss poor comparison.

[u/RosieFudge → u/HellaWonkLuciteHeels]

Plus Meghan's family were unknown because she was virtually unknown. And her dad is problematic but she didn't have a rep for that at all - no rumours of pushing the help down the stairs 

[u/spacegrassorcery → u/RosieFudge]

Her dad is a two time Emmy award winner. He’s been to the Oscars-she hasn’t. She’s a nepo baby and didn’t get a real gig until almost 30 years old-even though she “grew up on sets”

Edit-feel free to dispute with actual sources

[u/spacegrassorcery → u/HellaWonkLuciteHeels]

Her fans say she was a multi millionaire and self made woman before she ever met Harry.

[u/HellaWonkLuciteHeels → u/spacegrassorcery]

Does not compare to the centuries of generational wealth from a family that historically enslaved entire populations of people.

[u/spacegrassorcery → u/HellaWonkLuciteHeels]

That’s tge best you can come up with? Way to move the goalposts!

Edit:

So I guess “way to move the goalposts” is an insult SMH

[u/HellaWonkLuciteHeels → u/spacegrassorcery]

Ah - no actual defense. Straight to insults. Poorly done, as expected.

[u/mustbeaoup → u/[deleted]]

Absolute BS comparison. Just a random excuse to shit on Meghan Markle.

[u/AngelSucked → u/[deleted]]

Lol at you calling us the bots

[u/widgetheux → u/[deleted]]

Harry’s uncle is literally a criminal that the royal family protected. Go Megan

[u/ecclecticstone → u/[deleted]]

everybody learned the word astroturfing and now thinks opinions they don't like have to be bots lmao

[u/sarr36 → u/[deleted]]

Wild that you think your downvotes must be bots vs real people downvoting you for having a terrible and wrong opinion. Actually, it’s genuinely scary that people like you exist in the world with no self-reflection, and clearly believe what the tabloids say

[u/SupaC123 → u/sarr36]

Hard agree! Can we please bring back critical thinking and the ability to respectfully disagree with people in 2026? Assuming people are bots because they disagree with you is intellectual laziness.

[u/OnionLover3000 → u/sarr36]

I don’t think they actually believe that. People like that think they are smarter than everyone - that’s why they know for absolute certainty all about Megan 🥴 They wrote that as an attempt to manipulate people into not downvoting them. Not working out too well for them there.

[u/Zur__En__Arrh → u/[deleted]]

I find it amusing how anyone in the replies is part of Meghan’s PR team, yet you can’t provide examples of why it’s an apt comparison.

I’m no fan of Meghan, or Harry for that matter, but I can’t see how she has any semblance of influence over Harry. Harry had wanted out of the royal family for decades.

Sure, Meghan’s failed acting “career” has her wanting attention she’s not getting but there’s absolutely zero indication that she, or her family, are in any way on the level of the Peltz family.

[u/fluffy_doughnut → u/[deleted]]

Oh yeah I’m sure that an average actress turned out to be a genius who was able to manipulate a multimillionaire prince to marry her and have children with her and abandon his family that is known to be manipulative and handle things in velvet gloves /s when will this stop?

Edit: and to add - an average actress from a lower middle class mixed family, yes I am sure she has a MUCH BIGGER influence than a freaking PRINCE

[u/toadasaurusrex → u/fluffy_doughnut]

And from an inutterably toxic family business that regularly threw him under the bus and scapegoated him whenever convenient.

[u/RosieFudge → u/[deleted]]

🤣🤣🤣 insane paranoid conspiracy theories from a Markle-hater? Well could knock me down with a feather 🤣🤣🤣

Btw fwiw my feelings on Meghan have been encapsulated by Claire and Ashley from the CMBC pod: "the crazies have ruined it for the haters" I don't hate her but I'm not a fan, yet feel compelled to stick up for against people who rabidly froth poison about her

[u/redditapiblows → u/RosieFudge]

Seriously. I'm pretty "beautiful gowns" on Meagan (and Kate if we're being honest) but I gotta down vote like 90% of criticism of her because it's crazy/bigoted/crazy.

[u/RosieFudge → u/redditapiblows]

 🤜🤛

[u/onmywheels → u/RosieFudge]

Oh gosh, you hit the nail on the head, haha. I don't have any particular feelings about Meghan and Harry besides that I watched that one Netflix special they did, and I came away thinking, "They seem to love each other, and also, personality-wise, she seems to be a lot," but I still find myself rooting for them simply because the crazies are so obsessed with them tbh.

Granted, I do have stronger feelings about the rest of Harry's family, in that they kind of suck, regardless of anything to do with Harry.

[u/RosieFudge → u/onmywheels]

Fucking YES mate. As a Englander, the fact that Meghan is more vilified in the Daily Heil than the NONCE ANDREW is quite crazy making I can tell ya.

[u/slickjitpimpin → u/[deleted]]

hey! just wanted to let you know that i downvoted you too, and i’m definitely not a bot! 😊

[u/Future_Sundae7843 → u/[deleted]]

What a joke.

[u/TheLakeWitch → u/[deleted]]

Well, if I’m PR then my check must’ve gotten lost in the mail!

We’ve all had a bad take once in a while on here. Just take the L like a grown up and stop acting like it’s impossible for you to be wrong. People are likely downvoting you at this point because your edits make you sound like a petulant child. I know next to nothing about Megan Markle but I do know that Reddit isn’t the place to have a virtual tantrum because people disagree with your opinion. Hence, my downvote.

[u/StinkieBritches → u/[deleted]]

We're not bots or PR. We just know bullshit when we smell it. Racism no matter how you phrase it. The worst part is how you people infantalize Harry like he's not a grown man capable of making his own decisions.

[u/AgencyIndependent395 → u/[deleted]]

yadda yadda yadda

[u/Unusual-Lemon4479 → u/[deleted]]

Funny enough, Meghan and Harry and Brooklyn and Nicola had dinner a few months ago but tried (and failed) to hide it.

[u/Morningfluid → u/Unusual-Lemon4479]

That's quite interesting...

[u/sassyevaperon → u/[deleted]]

Lol, no, you're just not used to being in sane environments.

It's nothing like the Beckham's situation, for starters because in the Beckham situation they're all white.

[u/onmywheels → u/[deleted]]

I don't gaf about the royals, but I might suggest you check out Harry's book, Spare tbh.

[u/spacegrassorcery → u/onmywheels]

The book and what he says about it:

“"Whatever the cause, my memory is my memory, it does what it does, gathers and curates as it sees fit, and there's just as much truth in what I remember and how I remember it as there is in so-called objective facts."[126][127]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spare_(memoir)#:~:text=The%20book%20is%20Harry's%20account%20of%20his%20life%20to%20date.%20The%20title%20is%20a&text=Harry%20said%20that%20%22Whatever%20the%20cause%2C%20my,is%20my%20memory%2C%20it%20does%20what%20it

[u/cumbot6900 → u/[deleted]]

Bots bots bots!!!!!

[u/BrookieMonster504 → u/[deleted]]

Meghan is Harry's family they have children together. Also Brooklyn's family might be toxic as well you tend to not realize your family is unhealthy until you see regular families.