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Victoria and David Beckham are desperate to reconcile with estranged eldest son Brooklyn before he starts a family of his own with his wife of four years, Nicola Peltz.
Friends say Posh, 52, and Becks, 51, are “terrified” they’ll be shut out of their grandchildren’s lives unless they can repair the ever-widening rift between them.
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Both Brooklyn, 27, and Nicola, 31, have long expressed their desire for multiple children — in 2022, Nicola told The Times, per New Idea, “We definitely want a big family [and] we want to adopt some kids and have some of our own. That would be the dream.”
Brooklyn has even claimed he wants a “soccer team” of kids!
The young couple is said to be actively trying to conceive, making a rapprochement with Brooklyn’s family even more urgent.
“Victoria would love to be a grandmother one day, and it’s beyond painful that Brooklyn could exclude her from that,” a source said to New Idea.
“David is tormented by it too,” the insider added. “They want this estrangement with Brooklyn to end, but the fear is they are running out of time.”
The family feud has been brewing since even before Brooklyn and Nicola’s wedding in 2022.
As readers know, it was exacerbated when Brooklyn accused his parents on Instagram of staging “performative social media posts, family events and inauthentic relationships.” He claimed they placed “countless lies” in the media “to preserve” their own reputations.
He also accused them of trying to “ruin” his marriage and made it clear he had “no desire to reconcile” with them and would only communicate with them through their lawyers.
But despite his harsh words, “Brooklyn’s still their baby and they will never stop loving him,” the source said to New Idea. “It will break Victoria’s heart if she hears about her first grandchild from the press and not Brooklyn.”
According to a source, Posh and Becks have offered to meet Brooklyn and Nicola in the presence of lawyers, a therapist, a mediator or even Nicola’s parents or siblings — whatever it takes to repair the relationship.
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Other sources report that Brooklyn’s godparents — Elton John, David Furnish and Elizabeth Hurley — are working behind the scenes to negotiate a peace agreement.