TOM BRYANT 'Victoria Beckham will be there to catch Brooklyn after feud'

Sitting in a very ordinary cafe around the corner from bustling Kensington High Street in West London in 2014, I didn’t notice at first the woman sitting on the table next to mine.

Wearing sunglasses - and looking very well put together for a Sunday morning - she had her daughter on her lap, and two pre-teen boys sitting well-mannered beside her.

It wasn’t until I popped downstairs to find the loo and accidentally walked into the tiny, dingy kitchen did it finally dawn on me who she was.

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There hunched over a sink washing pots was a then 15-year-old Brooklyn Beckham, who looked up, mopped his brow and kindly pointed me in the right direction.

I remember at the time thinking how admirable it was for the son of multi-million-pound parents to be learning the real value of money…in this case, just £2.68 an hour.

And with mum upstairs - I swear I even saw an almond croissant pass her lips - I thought how proud she must be of her boy as he toiled in his weekend job.

How she must long for the same sense of togetherness and family unity to return after what’s been a tumultuous week. Having weathered various controversies over the years from leaked emails to tax rows, the Beckhams had been in a really good place.

But they are now splintered down the middle following Brooklyn and new wife Nicola Peltz’s very public snub of David’s 50th birthday, and the subsequent, toxic fallout. One thing’s for sure...

David and Victoria will be desperate for things to be resolved and family life to go back to normal. Just as Brooklyn could count on his mum picking him up that Sunday morning, she will be there again for him should things settle down.

But peace, however, seems a long way off...

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