{"id":327771,"date":"2026-08-23T11:28:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T11:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327771\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T11:28:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T11:28:52","slug":"romeos-instagram-post-shows-the-true-tragedy-of-losing-a-brothers-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327771\/","title":{"rendered":"Romeo\u2019s Instagram post shows the true tragedy of losing a brother\u2019s love"},"content":{"rendered":"

No one knows how to bother you like a younger brother<\/a>. And I have two of them. <\/p>\n

So I have huge sympathy with Brooklyn Beckham<\/a>, 27, who \u2013 having fallen out with his family<\/a> at the start of the year \u2013 is now subject to the frightening impish powers<\/a> of little brothers Romeo, 23, and Cruz<\/a>, 21, who were both best men at his wedding<\/a>. You hear a lot about how upset his parents are when families<\/a> feud. Not enough about what a tragedy it is when a brotherhood comes apart. <\/p>\n

Brooklyn, you\u2019ll remember, did a thing in January <\/a>and released a statement saying he wouldn\u2019t truck the \u201clies\u201d of the House of Beckham any longer, that his parents had been trying \u201cendlessly to ruin\u201d his relationship with his wife, the actor and billionaire heiress Nicola Peltz, through \u201cthe press\u201d since 2022. His lawyers reportedly later wrote to the Beckhams’ team requesting all communication be conducted through legal representatives.<\/p>\n

\"CruzCruz Beckham shares surprise photo with estranged brother Brooklyn (Instagram\/Cruz Beckham)<\/p>\n

It has not been an easy year for Brooklyn, who has had to borrow his godfather Elton John\u2019s yacht instead of holidaying with the rest of his family. Obviously, like any eldest boy, all he wants is to be taken seriously. A little respect for the chef and hot sauce entrepreneur, please. Which is why it is very powerful, obviously sad, and only just a little bit funny that his brothers are now trolling him mercilessly online. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s all classic little brother<\/a> stuff. Cruz appearing to mimic Nicola\u2019s comment under a post by Romeo\u2019s ex Mia Regan featuring the latter\u2019s magazine shoot in April \u2013 \u201cso beautiful Mia\u201d \u2013 by posting on Romeo\u2019s Instagram<\/a> \u2013 \u201cso beautiful Romeo\u201d. Two crying laughing emojis from Romeo. Last week, a post showing a throwback of his parents David and Victoria went viral because it was accompanied by the caption: \u201cIt\u2019s bizarre that a couple with such an insanely stunning face card only ended up with ugly kids.\u201d Cruz replied with a little meme that basically translated as: surely you don’t mean me?<\/p>\n

See also: Cruz, after posting a video of himself singing, was asked: \u201cAre you going to stick with this job or going to become a race car driver next or something?\u201d To which Cruz responded: \u201cWrong brother mate\u201d. This displeases the elders of the Fraternity of Big Brothers. It is exactly how you get under our skin. <\/p>\n

I really do feel for Brooklyn. I know it\u2019s very rock\u2019n\u2019roll for brothers to fall out, but don\u2019t be fooled by the Milibands. At 35, my two brothers are my best friends, the people I call to chat with, and the first guys I spill my heart to. I love them enormously. Wind-up merchants are pretty handy at the other stuff, too. <\/p>\n

You learn all this the hard way. When I was 10, my middle brother went through a phase of hiding my things. I didn\u2019t know he was hiding them which complicated matters. \u2018SAM! WHERE IS YOUR TIE!\u2019, my dad would yell just before school, and we all ran around looking for it, and everyone got very cross with me for losing it. Then I\u2019d go to school without a tie, and everyone there would get very cross with me too for not having it.<\/p>\n

Obviously it was all a very big deal because I was 10, very uptight and not getting things exactly just so really wound me up. But it was also machiavellian for an eight-year-old and the perfect crime because he was a very cute, cherubic little guy and even when we discovered the missing things under his pillow, of all places, everyone was just a bit baffled \u2013 he says I\u2019d annoyed him by saying something rude about mum and dad \u2013 and no one was particularly mad. <\/p>\n

What I\u2019m saying is that little brothers are very powerful. And you really don\u2019t ever want to get on the wrong side of them. Especially when there are two of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No one knows how to bother you like a younger brother. And I have two of them. So…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-327771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}