David and Victoria Beckham have shared birthday tributes to their estranged son Brooklyn to mark his 27th birthday.
Six weeks after Brooklyn shared his bombshell statement severing all ties with his family, his parents have offered a public olive branch with Instagram posts to mark their eldest son’s birthday.
Sharing childhood photos of Brooklyn and tagging his wife Victoria, David used his childhood nickname for his son, Buster, as he wrote ’27 today. Happy Birthday Bust. We love you x’
Minutes later Victoria shared the same photo and wrote ‘happy birthday Brooklyn, we love you so much,’ before uploading a photo of herself laughing with her son with a string of love hearts.
Now based in the United States with his actress wife Nicola Peltz Brooklyn recently outlined his desire to distance himself from his family in a six page Instagram statement, filled with lurid allegations.
Addressing social media followers in January, he claimed his parents had tried to sabotage his marriage and have always prioritised public branding over their family relationships.
‘For my entire life, my parents have controlled narratives in the press about our family,’ he wrote in six pages of text, shared on Instagram.
‘The performative social media posts, family events and inauthentic relationships have been a fixture of the life I was born into.’
He added: ‘Recently, I have seen with my own eyes the lengths that they’ll go through to place countless lies in the media, mostly at the expense of innocent people, to preserve their own facade. But I believe the truth always comes out.’
Unlike his three younger siblings, Brooklyn did not appear in his mother’s recent Netflix docuseries, nor did he show up at the October premiere as he and Nicola had for the London premiere of his father’s docuseries in 2023.
Brooklyn and his wife also missed David’s 50th birthday celebrations last May, and were notably absent at Windsor Castle for the former footballer’s long awaited investiture on November 4.
Brooklyn’s brothers Romeo and Cruz have so far remained quiet on social media on their sibling’s birthday. Victoria’s sister Louise Adams has posted though, sharing a sweet photo of her daughter Libby alongside a baby Brooklyn.
It’s not David’s first Instagram olive branch. On New Year’s Eve in another attempt to resolve their ongoing estrangement, he included a photo of a teenage Brooklyn in his round-up of family photos. Captioning the shot, he wrote: ‘I love you all so much.’
Further shots included the retired footballer with sons Romeo, Cruz and daughter Harper, while a final image featured wife Victoria and all for four of her children, with the caption: ‘You are my life.’
The post was promptly re-shared by wife Victoria, 51, who accompanied the image of Sir David and Brooklyn with an affectionate love heart.
Brooklyn’s birthday celebrations come just two weeks after the Beckham family celebrated his younger brother Cruz, who enjoyed several fun-filled bashes to mark his milestone 21st.
David and Victoria first threw their youngest son a lavish party at The MAINE in Mayfair last month, ahead of Cruz’s big day on February 20, complete with a luxury three-course meal.
The whole Beckham clan – minus Brooklyn – turned out for the occasion, including siblings Romeo, 23, and Harper, 14, maternal grandparents Tony and Jackie, aunt Joanne and paternal gran, Sandra.
While Victoria, Harper and Cruz’s girlfriend Jackie Apostel, 31, bought him to tears with a heartwarming speech during the bash.
While David led the birthday tributes to ‘kind, considerate and fiercely loyal’ son Cruz, with the former footballer sharing an Instagram post that said almost as much about his estrangement from eldest child Brooklyn as it did his relationship with his youngest.
The retired Manchester United and England footballer was among the first family members to post birthday messages as the young musician celebrated his milestone 21st.
But Brooklyn’s decision to cut ties with his immediate family so publicly appeared to be weighing on his mind as he shared video footage of Cruz as a child.
‘Happy 21st birthday to my little boy,’ he wrote. ‘Not so little anymore but the proudest thing that I am of you is the person and man that you have become, you are kind, considerate and fiercely loyal to your family, friends and everyone around you which makes you a very special person.
‘You are on your own journey in life and you are working hard and having fun which is what life is all about… We love you Cruzie and hope you have the most amazing day because you deserve to.’
