If there's one thing David Beckham loves more than football, it's his family, from his wife Victoria to his four children, Brooklyn, 23, Romeo, 19, Cruz, 17, and his youngest , Harper Beckham, 10 years old.
Many are the photos in which father and daughter proudly appear with each other, which does not fail to soften the 73 million Instagram subscribers of the former Manchester United midfielder.
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Already, when Harper was a child, the pictures on which David Beckham found himself disguised as a doll, or posed alongside Elsa and Anna, the heroines of the animated film
The Snow Queen
(2013), swarmed on social networks .
A few years later, the former professional sportsman is still no exception to the rule.
Installed in the garden of the family home to plant a tree on the occasion of the platinum jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, singing
Dancing Queen
of the group ABBA during Cruz's birthday or indulging in a few jokes on the occasion of the Red Nose Day, one of the most important telethons in England... the duo David and Harper Beckham are multiplying complicit posts on Instagram.
But if there's one thing the father and his only daughter have in common, it's their love for sports.
She barely knows how to walk when her father already takes her to the football fields to watch his brothers' matches.
A few years later, photos of the little girl, with the ball at her feet, are the pride of the former captain of the British team.
In April, David Beckham also published a video in which the girl, who wears a Miami Heat jersey, watches an NBA game attentively, before screaming with joy for her team.
controversial kisses
To celebrate the new year, the husband of the former Spice Girl had published a carousel revisiting several family moments, including one, showing him kissing his daughter.
The video disturbed some Internet users, shocked by a behavior that they considered too sexualized.
"I think Harper is uncomfortable," wrote one of them.
However, this was not the first time that David Beckham had received such comments.
During a Facebook live from 2017, he explained: “I was criticized for kissing my daughter on the mouth the other day.
I kiss all my children on the mouth.
(…) I am very affectionate with them.”
Before adding: "That's how I was raised and we are like that, Victoria and me".
Little affected by the critics, he published, a few weeks later, pictures on which he kisses his daughter again during a walk in the forest.
Another controversial subject: in January, it was via an Instagram post that David Beckham expressed his dismay about his daughter's crush on a comrade.
In support, sunglasses to hide his sadness, a black and white shot to show his melancholy and a face six feet long.
A staging that would have deserved an Oscar.
This has not failed to fuel the controversy over the relationship for some "unhealthy" with his daughter.
But the controversy does not seem to reach David Beckham.
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A place of choice
Because Harper Beckham, the only daughter of the siblings, is also pampered by her three older brothers.
As shown in a video by Victoria Beckham, in which we see her eldest son Brooklyn and her youngest daughter dancing and hugging.
A relationship full of complicity.
So much so that the young man made the girl his bridesmaid on the day of his wedding to Nicola Peltz, April 9.
Recently, it was the turn of the youngest of the family, Romeo, to display his complicity with Harper.
In the photo, the young man carries his little sister on his back as she hugs him tenderly.
Finally, Cruz meanwhile published a vintage photo of him and the little girl, on the occasion of his 10th birthday.
The one who was elected the “most stylish baby in the world of people” by the English site
My1styears.com,
for her first birthday, has since seen her life scrutinized by the media and Internet users.
His father doesn't care about criticism.
He intends to preserve his complicity with his daughter, whose first name he has tattooed on his neck.