The strange comfort of watching the Beckhams fall apart

Brooklyn Beckham’s public split from his famous parents offers uncomfortable insight into celebrity families, control, and generational resentment

Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Anne Peltz at their wedding. Picture: Brooklyn Beckham/Instagram/Vogue

I was planning an early night when the news broke. No, nothing about Greenland tensions or Enoch Burke or even the Northern Lights visible over Ireland. I mean the big news.

Brooklyn Beckham had posted an Instagram story.