{"id":169098,"date":"2025-06-09T02:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T02:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/169098\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T02:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T02:11:09","slug":"the-narrative-of-helpless-man-stolen-by-pushy-woman-is-being-wheeled-out-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/169098\/","title":{"rendered":"The narrative of helpless man stolen by pushy woman is being wheeled out again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do Yoko Ono, Meghan Markle and Nicola Peltz have in common? Apart from being: (a) minted; (b) female, and (c) married to past and present versions of British royalty?<\/p>\n<p>Hint \u2014 it\u2019s to do with (c). First Yoko, then Meghan, now Nicola. Each has been accused of abducting their British spouse and trafficking them to the US, where they were\/ are being held in diamond-encrusted captivity, \u2018controlled\u2019 by their conniving lady wives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Not literally. Not like Jeffrey Epstein \u2014 more of an emotional trafficking, with each of the three hapless husbands going seven shades of Patty Hearst, professing love for their captors as the British tabloids continue to go through cycles of performative apoplexy with side bars of conjecture, \u2018insiders\u2019 and \u2018sources\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Older readers will remember how Yoko broke up The Beatles, while the more contemporaneous recognise how Meghan Markle broke up the British royal family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">And now Nicola Peltz is breaking up Britain\u2019s other royal family, the Golden Spice Balls dynasty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Nicola who? For those still stubbornly refusing to spend their lives online keeping up with the far grander lives of American billionaire heiresses, this column is here to fill in your blanks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Nicola Peltz is married to Brooklyn Beckham, first born of David and Victoria. Brooklyn \u2014 named after the geographical location his mother first discovered she was pregnant with him (imagine if she\u2019d been in Merthyr Tydfil) \u2014 is currently married to Ms Peltz and engaged in a \u2018feud\u2019 with Brand Beckham, conducted via cryptic Instagram posts and a marked absence from his dad\u2019s 50th birthday shenanigans. Beckham Jnr appears to have, as they say in Leytonstone, the right hump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">So how is this Beckham internecine situation the fault of his American billionaire heiress wife?<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">You may well ask. Just as Prince Harry, having married another wealthy American, had the right hump with the Windsors, British tabloids found it more convenient to blame Ms Markle for her husband\u2019s distancing himself from his family of origin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">This raised two questions \u2014 how dare Ms Markle fill Harry\u2019s head with Californian nonsense about being happy, and what kind of royal would choose Californian sunshine over a lifetime of unveiling statues in the rain and asking people if they\u2019d come far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Rather than accept that John Lennon no longer wanted to be a Beatle, or that Harry Windsor no longer wanted to be a prince, nor can the UK media get its head around how young\u00a0Brooklyn, vendor of hot sauce, taker of blurry elephant photos, and poster baby of nepo, no longer wants to be a brand ambassador for the family firm. A bit of woman-blaming is therefore required.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Hence the acreage devoted to alleged antipathy between Ms Peltz and Mummy Beckham, because bitchfights make clickbait.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Meghan Markle had an entire palace media ecosystem to grapple with, while Yoko Ono endured the double whammy of being a woman and a foreigner who nicked a national treasure and spirited him away to New York and a life of radical creativity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Obviously Brooklyn Beckham, with his terrible photos and daft tatts, is far from a Beatle or a prince \u2014 but that\u2019s not stopping the narrative of helpless man stolen by a pushy woman being wheeled out again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Meanwhile, if you want to read about actual trafficking, follow the trials of Sean Combs or Andrew Tate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What do Yoko Ono, Meghan Markle and Nicola Peltz have in common? 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