Harry hysteria's not like Brooklyn bridge

ALL happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” is the opening line of Leo Tolstoy's 1878 novel Anna Karenina.

- Lesley-Ann Jones

Hysteria about the Duke of Sussex and Brooklyn Beckham reminded me of this, and that parallels drawn between clans at war with wayward sons are pointless. The drama and agony are unique to each.

While both appear to be MEMs “mother-enmeshed men”, a phrase coined by clinical psychologist Dr Ken Adams PhD, author of When He’s Married To Mom their back stories are dissimilar.

The Beckham matriarch lives and is welded to her husband. Harry was deprived of his mother when he was 12. His parents had been indulging in affairs since the year after his birth, had separated by the time he was eight and divorced four years later, shortly before Diana died. The prince was used to sharing mummy with her boyfriends.