Victoria Beckham celebrated her 49th birthday in style – with an expensive bottle of whiskey and a huge meringue.
The fashion designer shared a slew of snaps on Instagram on Monday as she celebrated the big day with husband David, 47, and their kids, save for middle son Romeo, 20, who stayed at the family home in London.
Posh Spice lives up to its name as the lavish night was spent enjoying food and drink at a fancy restaurant in Miami.
Victoria splurged on a £800 bottle of Pappy Van Winkle 12-year-old whiskey in order to sample them all.
This was accompanied by a £750 bottle of 2006 Chateau Mouton Rothschild for the table.
Lavish: Victoria Beckham celebrated her 49th birthday in style – with an expensive bottle of whiskey and a huge meringue
Former England captain David, 47, posted online: “Yeah…and you eat cake.”
In her caption, Victoria wrote: “Meeeeeee celebration!! Last night.
I really love you !! We miss uromeobeckham! Kisses @davidbeckhambrooklynpeltzbeckham @cruzbeckham #HarperSeven xx. ‘
While the former Spice Girl claimed the footage was taken “last night,” the whole clan was dressed in the same outfits as the “Peace Summit” they held on Easter Sunday.
Victoria and Nicola spent spring break at the Peltz family’s £76 million mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, where the Beckham brood showed up on an Easter egg hunt.
It was said to be a “peace summit” for the families, who have been plagued by rumors of falling out since Nicola tied the knot with Brooklyn Beckham last year.
Despite posing as family on Thursday, Victoria and her eldest daughter-in-law remain a slight distance from each other.
According to body language expert Judi James, the family photo fails to show Victoria and Nicola’s “signs of bonding” – with the latter looking at once shunned.
Brooklyn shared the family photo to his Instagram Stories, writing, “I love you guys so much” as he captioned his family members.
According to body language expert Judy James, putting the family in the picture suggests that “there really isn’t a set set of levels of bonding.”
After analyzing the snap, she told MailOnline: ‘If Brooklyn and Nicola are back in the bosom of the family, why are they being placed further apart, surrounding David and Victoria instead of together and in between? You’d expect the parents to do the interviews, to point out that Brooklyn and Nicola are lovable as a couple at the heart of the family unit.
Luxury: Posh Spice lives up to its name as the lavish night was spent enjoying food and drink at a fancy restaurant in Miami
Luxury: Victoria tipped an £800 bottle of whiskey which was accompanied by a £750 bottle of Chateau Mouton Rothschild 2006 for the table
Cute: “I love you,” Victoria wrote alongside a photo of her daughter Harper, 11, eldest child Brooklyn, 24, and wife Nicola, 28, inside the swanky restaurant.
Yum! The heiress and budding chef smile as they stand with Wannabe Hitmaker’s birthday cake on the table
Noting that Inclusivity focuses on David, Victoria, and Brooklyn, rather than the family as a whole, Jodi acknowledges that the former football player has his arms around his son like a protective parent. While Victoria’s head and pelvis are tilted towards boys as well.
Victoria left a straight arm that alternated between her and Nicola, creating the effect of a barrier. Nicola appears to have put her right arm behind Victoria’s back but there is no response from her mother-in-law,” Jodi shares.
It’s more of a celebration of Brooklyn than Nicola, she continues, adding, “It’s almost as if Victoria is celebrating Brooklyn’s return to the fold and has forgotten a little about Nicola.” There is a similar “echo” gesture from Brooklyn, where he puts his left hand in his pocket instead of wrapping it around his father.
Nicola’s wide smile indicates that she is happy to send signals of family unity and her reflective ritual is indicative of her desire to appear like one of the family. Her left arm is placed around Harper’s shoulders in a gesture that mirrors David’s embrace of Victoria and the position of her leg is a perfect match for her mother-in-law’s.
The Cold War began when Victoria and Nicola clashed over her wedding dress and the Transformers star accused her new mother-in-law of stealing the spotlight at her wedding.
The Beckhams refused to pay for Brooklyn’s US green card, a source claims, and most recently, the once-Spice girl turned down their son and daughter-in-law at their new Paris Fashion Week show, says a family insider.
SHOCK: In a family snapshot, Cruz, 18, brazenly grabbed his father’s thigh as he slashed a fashionable figure in a stylish animal print T-shirt and blue baseball cap
What a husband! Brooklyn showed Cruz some brotherly love at the dinner table
Center of attention: ‘Meeeeeee celebration!! last night’, Victoria wrote in her caption.
Although the newlywed chef and Transformers actress are happy and glam for each other, trouble has reportedly been brewing between their homes for quite some time.
A source who knows Nicola well said the drama started around her and her Brooklyn Palm Beach, FL wedding — and only escalated.
As a famous designer, many in the fashion world assumed that Victoria would design Nicola’s wedding dress. But instead, the bride appeared on the May cover of Vogue in Valentino Couture.
Nicola later gave an interview insisting that giving up Victoria’s offer was not designed to be a slight against her new mother-in-law.
“I was going and really wanted to, and after a few months, I realized her operator couldn’t do that, so I had to choose another dress,” she told Variety last month.
But an insider said Nicola never intended to wear Victoria Beckham to her wedding.
She would always let her design something. The source said she didn’t want to put that on her. She has a lot of talented designer friends.
It’s like if you have a husband in law, and they say they make the best meatballs, you hate meatballs, but you let them cook them anyway. That’s exactly what happened.
“She would never have worn it.”
THE TOP: Victoria and Nicola spent spring break at the Peltz family’s £76 million mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, where the Beckham brood appeared on an Easter egg hunt
Altered Relationships: The family spent Easter with a weekend dubbed Peace Summit (LR: David, Brooklyn, Nicola & Victoria)
Another source with knowledge of the dress controversy has led to the belief that Nicola was really considering wearing her mother-in-law’s design, but was left reeling at the “last minute”.
Valentino was worried they didn’t have “enough time to put the dress on because Victoria didn’t tell Beltzis that her atelier couldn’t make the dress for Nicola until the last minute,” said the second source.
After the dress drama unfolded, Nicola was offended when David and Victoria’s best friend Marc Anthony gave a gushing speech at her wedding — all about Victoria, according to an insider.
It was just an ode to Victoria and how wonderful she is. Nicola loves to be the center of attention, especially on her wedding day. “It really, really turned her off,” said the source.
“She walked off in the middle of her wedding with (sister) Brittany and her mother, and she had tears in her eyes.”
With the dust seemingly clearing up on Sunday, Beckham’s daughter Harper gleefully ran around the grounds collecting candy, while other family members were seen basking in the sun and bonding together.
In the year since the aspiring Brooklyn chef and his wife’s marriage to his lavish heiress, the family has been plagued by rumors of a fallout between the latter and her mother-in-law, Victoria.
According to The Sun, they decided to throw a big family Easter party to welcome Brooklyn and Nicola back from their trip to Tokyo for the holiday.
“The couple have been spending the past few days in Tokyo but wanted to gather both families in Palm Beach for Easter Sunday dinner to celebrate their first year as a married couple,” an insider told the publication.
Landmark: Over Easter, Brooklyn and Nicola celebrated one year of marriage while surrounded by their families
Victoria and David have been spending some time in the US over recent weeks, and they’re joined by their two youngest children.
And with their eldest son so close by, the ceremony seems to work perfectly for the clan.
They were last reunited in March at the Victoria Fashion Show during the city’s Fashion Week, which also coincided with Brooklyn’s birthday later that week.
Celebrating as a family, the fashion designer received support from her husband and children at the show. While they were enjoying a day in the French capital to celebrate Brooklyn’s birthday.
