Who Are Victoria Beckham’s Parents? They Owned a Business

The Gist:

• A recent viral video has some wondering who Victoria Beckham’s parents were.
• Victoria’s parents owned an electronics wholesale business that allowed her and her siblings to grow up wealthy, and even ride a Rolls-Royce to school.
• Victoria was apparently embarrassed of her family’s wealth at the time, and still doesn’t want to fully acknowledge how well off she was.

Thanks to a new documentary series, David and Victoria Beckham are under more scrutiny than they have been for many years. The docuseries gives us insight into their relationship, but it also delves into their early lives before they met one another, and who they were growing up.

In one particularly revealing clip that has gone viral online, Victoria suggests that she had a pretty working class upbringing before David interjects to tell her not to lie. He then insists that she reveal what car she rode to school in, and we discover that her family owned a Rolls Royce. Naturally, this led many people to want to learn more about who Victoria’s parents were, and why they owned a Rolls Royce.

Victoria is the eldest of three children. Her parents are Jacqueline and Anthony Adams. Jacqueline worked as an insurance clerk and hairdresser, and Anthony was an electronics engineer. Victoria grew up in comfort in large part because her parents eventually opened an electronics wholesale business that did quite well. Victoria is also descended from German artist and revolutionary Carl Heinrich Pfänder, but that’s not where the money came from.

Victoria was interested in the arts from a young age, but when she was attending school, she was actually embarrassed of her family’s wealth, and often discouraged her father from dropping her off in the Rolls-Royce. Apparently, that shame about growing up in a wealthy household didn’t abate as she became even more wealthy as an adult. She may be unabashedly wealthy, but David still had to coax her childhood wealth out of her.

The candid moments that the docuseries managed to capture are thanks in no small part to the amount of time that Fisher Stevens, the director of the series, spent with the couple. In an interview with Variety, Fisher said that he spent roughly 30 hours interviewing David, and another 14 with Victoria. He also added that he came away admiring their relationship, even though it was filled with controversy.

“It hasn’t all been rosy with his relationship with Victoria. There’s constant controversy,” Fisher said “Frankly, I was quite moved by their relationship at the end of the day, and — after all they’ve been through — how much they love each other, and how close they are.”

David and Rebecca first met at a match in 1997, and were married two years later. Although they’ve weathered a number of controversies, they’ve been together ever since, and now share four kids. Now, it seems that they’re ready to discuss that past in detail.