Ihave a delightful daughter-in-law. For discretion’s sake, I’ll call her Emily.

Emily is sweet-natured, a great mother, will do anything for you, and all the other good stuff. A parent couldn’t wish for a better partner for their child.

But there’s a problem, an elephant that’s been in the room since my son Charlie met and married Emily five years ago. A hulking great heffalump that we hoped would eventually –once she had children, maybe – pack its trunk and go away.

But it’s just getting worse and worse. So bad that it’s no exaggeration to say the cohesion of the whole family is under threat, although we’d never risk a Beckham-style family split. (For those not paying attention, Brooklyn B. has recently embedded himself fully with the family of his allegedly difficult wife Nicola P

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