Beckham: A Family Story

by Alexander Larman

Beckham traces the rise of a family that came to define modern celebrity. Lifting the lid on the realities behind the image, the book offers a complete, unbiased portrait of a family whose story continues to unfold – and whose influence spans generations.

When David Beckham and Victoria Adams first met in the late 1990s, they were already famous in their own right – young, ambitious and operating at the top of their fields. The Spice Girl and the football player – it was a modern love story. Together, they would become something a partnership that fused sport, style and popular culture, and a family whose influence would extend far beyond either of their original worlds.

Following their journey from that first meeting through marriage, parenthood and continual reinvention, this biography explores how shared values, discipline and loyalty shaped both their private lives and their public image. Set against decades of global attention, it charts the evolution of the Beckham household as their four children grew up in the spotlight, each finding their own path while carrying one of the most recognizable surnames in the world …

Bringing the story fully into the present day, Beckham looks at the family now, with Brooklyn Beckham stepping into adulthood, marriage and public life, and considers how legacy is passed on, reshaped and redefined.

Kindle Edition

Expected publication August 27, 2026

About the author

Alexander Larman is an author, historian and journalist. After reading English at Oxford, from where he graduated with a First, he ghost-wrote and edited various memoirs and biographies, including the late artist and flâneur Sebastian Horsley’s Dandy In The Underworld. His involvement with the book led Horsley to say ‘there is no man in London more capable of genius – or a flop – than Alexander Larman’.

He began his own writing career with Blazing Star (Head of Zeus, 2014), a biography of the 17th century poet and libertine Lord Rochester, and followed this with Restoration (Head of Zeus, 2016) a social history of the year 1666, and Byron’s Women (Head of Zeus, 2016), an ‘anti-biography’ of the poet Lord Byron and the significant women in his life. His next book, The Crown in Crisis (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2020) was a revisionist history of the abdication saga. It was selected by the Times, Daily Mail and Daily Express as one of their best books of the year and led to significant international media coverage of the new revelations about the event.

As a journalist, Larman regularly contributes to titles including The Observer, The Critic, the Daily Telegraph, The Spectator and The Chap, for which he serves as literary editor. He lives in Oxford with his wife and daughter.