A book reveals what lies behind the Beckham marriage: ‘Money, sex and power’

If there is one thing about the marriage formed by David and Victoria Beckham, it is that it leaves no one indifferent. In recent times we have been able to learn a little more about their day-to-day life thanks to the publications they themselves make on Instagram and in which they appear close and joking, transmitting a complicity that, according to the book ‘The House of Beckham: Money , Sex and Power’ (‘The Beckham House: Money, Sex and Power’), would be just a “farce.” This is attested to by its author, the journalist Tom Bower, who even states that the athlete and the businesswoman have been separated since 2016. Eight years in which they would only be united in front of the gallery for economic reasons.

“They are only dedicated to maintaining a long-distance business relationship,” says Bower, with him in Miami, where he is in charge of the Inter Miami FC soccer team, and she in London, where she is dedicated to her fashion brand. An image that contrasts with the family documentary that the couple has filmed for Netflix in which both exude complicity and with images such as that of David carrying his wife out of his 50th birthday party at an exclusive London club. .

The journalist has assessed that what is seen in the documentary is nothing more than a farce to feed the business. “Although they cannot hide their separate lives, they were united in supporting the brand,” Bower said in the British newspaper ‘The Mirror’. A theory that he supports by recounting some of the anecdotes that he has been able to learn as a result of his investigation of the marriage and that has led him to conclude that, currently, not even in business the relationship is fluid.

Among the examples, when the Spice Girl asked her husband to return to the United Kingdom to have dinner at her brand’s store on Dover Street on the occasion of London Fashion Week to promote her brand. It seems that on that occasion “David sat the entire time without meeting Victoria’s gaze.” An attitude that made the designer wish that her husband “had stayed in the United States,” says Bower, and that sparked rumors of a crisis between the couple. Furthermore, the journalist claims that several witnesses told him about “a recent heated fight.”

Scandals and power struggles within the couple who met in 1997 and have been married since 1999, with which the book has come to cloud what will be their 25th wedding anniversary on July 4. Of course, Bower’s work does not lack a review of the footballer’s infidelity with Rebecca Loos during his militancy at Real Madrid. A stage in Spain that Victoria remembers as “difficult.” But the author does not stop there and also recounts David’s alleged encounters with the model Celina Laurie, owner of the Danielle Heath beauty salon. Problems in which his son Brooklyn would have acted as an intermediary to appease the spirits of his parents.

For the journalist, what lies behind the Beckham marriage is the need to project an image of a well-established family that reinforces the reputation of their businesses, so much so that he assures that “David’s status and survival would have vanished had it not been for the Victoria’s efforts to maintain the illusion of a happy family.

Rumors of crises, infidelities and breakups have accompanied the Beckhams since the beginning of their relationship. Something “annoying and frustrating” for the fashion designer, as she confessed in an interview in 2019. Over the years, some of this information has been confirmed and others have been blurred without completely disappearing despite the denials. Be that as it may, the reality of what happens within the Beckham house will never be known, what does seem clear is that “fame costs” and this seems to be the way in which they are paying for it.