From saas-bahu to Sussex: Beckhams and Meghan Markle play the same script
This is why the ongoing Beckham family fallout and the long, slow implosion of Meghan Markle’s relationship with the British Royal Family belong in the same analytical universe. Not because one involves footballers and fashion designers while the other involves crowns and castles, but because both are stories about institutions mistaking themselves for families, families mistaking discipline for love, and younger generations refusing to accept that inheritance must come with silence as its price.
This is why the ongoing Beckham family fallout and the long, slow implosion of Meghan Markle’s relationship with the British Royal Family belong in the same analytical universe. Not because one involves footballers and fashion designers while the other involves crowns and castles, but because both are stories about institutions mistaking themselves for families, families mistaking discipline for love, and younger generations refusing to accept that inheritance must come with silence as its price.
