“A son is a son till he takes him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter for all of her life.” That’s an old Irish proverb apparently, loaded with uncomfortable truths dressed up in maternal wisdom. The gist? Once a son gets married, the family he came from must queue behind the one he’s building.
The Peltz-Beckham saga seems to be playing out this ancient drama with full theatricality on a very modern, very public stage, a familiar, familial symmetry between this and another very public British-family-meets-American-wife drama: the Sussexes. Both tales reading like a modern Macbeth. Much like Meghan Markle before her, Nicola Peltz is a glamorous American woman who married into one of Britain’s “first families” and was swiftly framed as the wedge between a beloved son and his heritage.
