Mia Freedman

And the other thing is that Beckham awareness is really high because of the Netflix documentaries, which went global.

The Beckhams used to be much more of a Anglophone country obsession but the Netflix shows really sent them into the global stratosphere.

It wasn't the strategy during conception but it became the strategy.

To me the most damning part of what he posted was not even about the dance, although I'm glad to say that we'll get to the dance in a bit.

The most galling part of what Brooklyn wrote about to me was when he came back for David's birthday party.

And he and Nicola wanted to see David, but they kept being told, you can't see him unless you come and see him at his party where there are cameras, where they're going to post it on Instagram.

And that just seemed so sad.

Yeah.

To put my thumb on the scale, that's sad that he can't be bothered to see them unless there's a camera there documenting it for Instagram.

Yeah.

Well, yeah, it's not just the 1%.

It's an American 1%.

And I think that's another key thread we've got to bring up here is that this is a culture clash.

And you talked a little bit about this on yesterday's show.

Well, I don't think it's a coincidence that Meghan and Harry and Brooklyn and Nicola are both a British man and an American woman.

Because what I see as at the heart of this conflict in both cases is a pull between American individualism and a British kind of idea of keep calm and carry on, like grin and bear it, like it's your family, what are you going to do?

Yes.

Look at the fact that in American culture there's so many movies and comedic tropes centred around the idea of coming back to see your original nuclear family, whether it be for Thanksgiving or Christmas or some other milestone.

That's depicted in American culture as a really jarring event.

Oh, I have to go and see my parents because it's Thanksgiving and then there'll be all these terrible things that happen along the way because you don't see them very often.