Victoria Beckhams Heartache: A Desperate Move?

Her estranged son Brooklyn has repeatedly pleaded with his mother to stay out of his and wife Nicole’s lives and only contact them through lawyers.

So what does VB do? Pop up looking mournful and moody for a cover profile in the prestigious Wall Street Journal’s magazine, and reveal her ‘heartache’ over the family rift.

All while wearing one of her own bespoke double-breasted designer suits which sell for well over £1,000. Talk about desperate and crass product placement.

Which leaves me wondering what part exactly of Brooklyn’s entreaty for her not to ‘reference’ him and his wife in any way as ‘it is triggering and causes distress to both of us’ VB fails to get?

Why is she flaunting herself as a caring mum struck with anguish when she’s simply ignoring Brooklyn’s wishes with this self-aggrandising interview?

I’m guessing she got around his plea, technically, by not naming her eldest son, 27, or her other children – his fashion model brother Romeo, 23, aspiring musician Cruz, 21 and daughter Harper, 14 – in her interview.

She says, tearfully: ‘All we have ever tried to do was protect our children and love our children.’

Jolly good. But is this the best way of going about it, given Brooklyn’s strictures?

When asked if she felt any guilt about raising her children in the spotlight – even the story of her pregnancy with Brooklyn was sold to OK! magazine and there were endless pictures of him in glossy magazines as a baby and toddler – she replied: ‘I think that we’ve always – we love our children so much – we’ve always tried to be the best parents that we can be.’

Adding, a touch too piously given that she could have refu subject if she wanted to mend bridges with Brooklyn: ‘And you know, that’s all I really want to say about it.’

Posh – who turned 52 yesterday – knows how to play the media. She could have insisted family questions were out of order. She could have stated questions should concern her fashion line – in which case we might have discovered how she can call it a success when it was besieged by multi-million pound debts and bailed out for years by her and husband David’s estimated £500million fortune before first turning a profit in 2022.

To talk about the family rift just four months after Brooklyn severed all links with his parents and asked them not to ‘reference’ him seems to me to be using it cynically to promote her brand.

How it must stick in the craw of Brooklyn and his wife Nicole. Surely Posh can see that.

The warning signs are all there – not least in Brooklyn’s furious Instagram post in January in which he raged: ‘My family values public promotion and endorsements above all else. Brand Beckham comes first.

‘Family “love” is decided by how much you post on social media, or how quickly you drop everything to show up and pose for a family photo op...’

Has she no shame or, at least, self-awareness?

It must be heartbreaking for Brooklyn that despite his parents’ promises to stay out of his and Nicole’s marriage, his mother has raised the whole family rift again.

The only conclusion I can come to is that it’s still Brand Beckham first, loving mum second.