Brooklyn’s Beckham wedding day to Nicola Peltz appeared to be the catalyst for his explosive feud with his parents.
But it’s not just the wedding dress rift or THAT comment about his mum’s dancing, as it seems his Nanny Sandra lies at the heart of the family turmoil.
Brooklyn shared his side of the feud for the first time on Monday night in a brutal takedown, where he claimed his mother Victoria Beckham called him ‘evil’ because he chose not to have his parents at the top table for the wedding.
Instead, Brooklyn said the couple opted to have his Nanny Sandra, his dad David’s mum, and Nicola’s ‘naunni’ sit with them at the top table because both women didn’t have husbands. David’s dad Ted attended the wedding with his new wife Hilary while Nicola’s grandfather had passed away.
Brooklyn said his family and Nicola’s family were placed on their own tables ‘equally adjacent’ to the top table.
This is a diversion from tradition as usually top table etiquette places the couple in the centre, with their parents on either side.
The traditional UK order (from the left) is: chief bridesmaid, groom’s father, bride’s mother, groom, bride, bride’s father, groom’s mother, best man – however most couple opt to sit their parents together.
‘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,’ Brooklyn wrote.
‘Both of our parents had their own tables equally adjacent to ours.’
Elsewhere in the statement, Brooklyn claimed Victoria pulled out of making Nicola’s wedding dress at the ‘eleventh hour’ – which was seemingly at odds with an account given by the bride’s stylist at the time.
Brooklyn claimed Victoria ‘cancelled’ plans to make Nicola’s gown at the last minute, ‘forcing her to urgently find a new dress’.
But in an article published in Vogue four weeks after their April 2022 nuptials Nicola’s stylist Leslie Fremar said the dress was a year in the making.
Nicola also addressed the controversy in a Grazia interview in which she said that after Victoria said her atelier couldn’t make the gown in time, she travelled to Valentino’s headquarters to start the design process.
The actress, 31, sported a stunning couture Valentino bridal dress on the big day.
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Comment now Hollywood stylist Leslie, who is behind the wardrobes of Demi Moore, Julianne Moore and Charlize Theron, took two trips to Valentino’s headquarters in Rome to see the design come to life with the brand’s creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli and his team.
There was then two US fittings with Nicola, with the head seamstresses even journeying to Miami to ensure it was tailored perfectly.
Leslie said: ‘It was the ultimate couture experience. The simplicity of it was magnificent. We didn’t have to overly detail the dress to accomplish the magnitude of it, so we ended up eliminating the embroidery.’
Now, making claims about what he says actually happened with the dress, Brooklyn wrote in his scathing post on Monday: ‘My parents have been trying endlessly to ruin my relationship since before my wedding, and it hasn’t stopped.
‘My mum cancelled making Nicola’s dress in the eleventh hour despite how excited she was to wear her design, forcing her to urgently find a new dress.’
Tensions of a brewing feud began over Nicola’s choice of wedding dress, with rumours at the time claiming it was the actress who refused to wear one of Victoria’s eponymous designs.
She instead opted for various designs from Valentino, Christian Dior and Versace.
Nicola later confirmed the rumours had begun after she didn’t wear Victoria’s design.
While she denied there was a ‘feud’, she explained that Victoria’s atelier simply hadn’t had time to make the dress, as she insisted: ‘No family is perfect.’
She told the Sunday Times in 2022: ‘I think it all started, and I’ve said this before, because I didn’t end up wearing Victoria’s wedding dress. But the real truth is I really, really wanted to wear it and I thought it was so beautiful that Brooklyn’s mum got to make that for me.’
The wedding dress drama was bolstered by the fact that Victoria not only wore her own dress design on the day – but four of her dearest friends and her own mother attended the nuptials wearing her designs.
In his explosive statement, Brooklyn also claimed Victoria hijacked their first dance which left him so ’embarrassed’, they decided to renew their vows without his family last year.
He also hit out at his father, as he said he was in the UK to attend David’s 50th celebrations, but claimed repeated requests to see him beforehand were ignored and ‘when he finally agreed to see me, it was under the condition that Nicola wasn’t invited’.
