Brooklyn Beckham’s big day, marrying billionaire heiress Nicola Peltz, is only the start of this next generation of Beckham weddings, says Polly Hudson

First, a disclaimer: we’re not old, it’s just that he’s getting married really young.

Brooklyn Beckham – who last week broke the internet with the profound musing, “I love cheese, it’s like butter” – is about to be someone’s husband.

As his wedding approaches, you can’t help feeling nostalgic about another set of nuptials 23 years ago, which, coincidentally, Brooklyn attended.

The marriage of Victoria Adams and David Beckham.

When Princess Diana died in 1997, the pre-Meghan and Kate Royal Family had no-one with any star quality to take her place, so there was a gap on the front pages. That same year, planets-aligning style, some pretty footballer met not even the second best Spice Girl – and against all odds the combining of their forces made magic.

The thrones at their wedding two years later were supposedly tongue-in-cheek, but the crowning of themselves as the new King And Queen of Celebrity couldn’t have been more serious.

(And also detracted attention from the gold initials they had on everything, meaning the entire event seemed to have been sponsored by Venereal Disease.)

People had cared about the well-known before, since the Hollywood gossip columnists of black and white movies days, but V and D took it to a whole new level. Without that heavily stage- managed, multiple matching outfitted, enormous, lavish production of a marriage – the like of which we’d never seen – everything would be different now. If there was no Posh and Becks, we wouldn’t have the Kardashians, Love Island, the concept of being Instagram Famous.

This was the wedding that launched a thousand sh*ts.

As a direct result, David and Victoria gave Brooklyn a career – not just by giving birth to him, but by giving birth to his profession.

Thanks to their trailblazing ways, it’s now not shameless self-promotion, it’s building your brand. Taking selfies all day long isn’t wasting your life, it’s creating content, hustling, being a boss. It’s not narcissism, it’s Influencing.

And the proof of the pudding – as long as it wasn’t produced on Cookin’ With Brooklyn – is in the eating, and the fact that over two decades later, we’re still hungry for more. Posh and Becks are as big a deal now as they ever were.

Many of their showbiz peers were evicted from the limelight years ago, but they continue to endure. They’ve weathered more than one of the kinds of scandals that have finished off other careers – remember there was a time people were hanging and burning effigies of him. Rebecca Loos. Knighthoodgate.

At the end of the world, only cockroaches may be around to read celebrity gossip mags, but Posh and Becks will definitely still be on the cover.

Brooklyn’s big day marrying billionaire heiress Nicola Peltz is only the start of this next generation of Beckham weddings of course, their legacy. Hard to get that excited about Romeo and Cruz – no offence, lads – but imagine when it’s their only daughter’s turn.

The pieces are probably already being put in place for the ultimate match to cement David and Victoria’s everlasting status. The wedding of Harper Seven to Prince George, aka the real Posh and Becks.