The Duchess of Cambridge attends the Sarah Everard vigil

[JamesMiddletonsMarshmallows]

My respect for the Duchess has just shot up. For a Royal, this is pretty bold and brave.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/sarah-everard-vigil-kate-middleton-london-b1816862.html

Not forgetting other women - if you attended the vigil tonight, thank you for sticking up for women's rights. Let's hope this is an opportunity for the Met Police to review and change how they treat both offending officers and female victims

There has always been nasty posts on mumsnet but say 10 years ago it was read just on one board. The rest was quite friendly and supportive.

@Mrsmadevans

I am so impressed by her going to pay her respects , how compassionate and lovely of her to think of Sarah & her family given all that has happened this week to the RF . I am sure they will feel Sarah has been recognised by her actions.

Truly tone death and incoherent post.This is about Male violence and a dead woman Yet you’ve contrived to turn this into how lovely is Kate and all about the monarchy difficult week

@Sparklingbrook

We have no idea how Sarah's family and friends feel about Kate's gesture of solidarity, and their opinion really matters.

Well I know how I'd feel if a RF member tried to use my sister's memorial as a PR opportunity in a bad week.

Absolutely I'm tired too

I have never typed out so many posts and deleted them without posting as I have this last week. Eggshells.

I never mentioned anything about Meghan Markle @RRRRwuff.

What I find objectionable is a member of the Royal Family capitalising on the murder of a woman as a publicity stunt. It's abhorrent.

Mumsnet has been another level of horridness for the past 5 years, yes.

What happened in 2016?

Yep. Been horrid since then.

@MeribleMelon

After this week, can we not all just support one another?! Of all weeks and all times, why have we got to slag off a woman, that most of us have never met off. She’s not a dictator, she’s not a murderer, she’s done nothing wrong. Yet here is a thread absolutely slating her. Of all weeks. I’m so tired.

Would be nice if that "can't we all just support each other" sentiment was afforded to all women.

I love how she must be capitalising rather than supporting... you do not know her life experiences. Says a lot more about all of you.

@Bluntness100

I simply can’t comprehend how some women are attacking her for going and paying her respects. As if she shouldn’t have done. Or why anyone is making it about Meghan, I’m sure Meghan would also have went if she was in the Uk.

It’s not a competition between the two. You don’t need to hate Kate if you like Meghan.

Any woman going and paying her respects is doing a good thing. That’s it. Any woman. And any woman who has a media position then she’s bringing more publicity to this, and that’s also a good thing.

Women attacking women is awful but attacking her for paying her respects is appalling.

Well said. What a depressing thread.

@BigBamboo

I love a slightly rebellious Kate and Wills.

I agree and very happy she went.

@Wobblesandchickuns

Hmm looks like a PR move to cynical me...

This ^

Well I know how I'd feel if a RF member tried to use my sister's memorial as a PR opportunity in a bad week

It doesn't matter how you would feel, and they may see it entirely differently. Nobody knows.

www.gov.uk/government/publications/face-coverings-when-to-wear-one-and-how-to-make-your-own/face-coverings-when-to-wear-one-and-how-to-make-your-own
For some of you who seem to think Kate should be wearing a face mask, maybe you should read this

@whatisthislifesofullofcare

Mumsnet has been another level of horridness for the past 5 years, yes.

What happened in 2016?

Yep. Been horrid since then.

Brexit. It’s been one divisive thing after another since then.

Dressed down, with no make up, and in a mask, she'd have looked just like the hundreds of other women gathering on Clapham Common.

Nobody would have said "oh there's the Duchess of Cambridge" based on a masked silhouette!

Good for her. She doesn't have to do anything she doesn't want to do and she was probably advised not to go. So I'm sure she personally wanted to go.

Her protection team is from the Met so she also has rather brilliantly (if perhaps unintentionally) shown up the police hypocrisy - if they were perfectly fine to peacefully accompany the future queen down to the common in the afternoon, why did they then feel the need to brutalise a bunch of women with flowers later in the day?

I second abhorrent.

Why would she need a mask outside? Maybe she's just like a lot of us and hates the bastard things.

Damned if she didn’t, damned if she didn’t. Same for all of us. Our actions are never going to please everyone we know.

She could have gone ‘officially’. She could have gone incognito. She could have made a statement. She could have done nothing. The list of possibilities is endless. Nothing would have pleased everyone.

Find something positive in this. Use it. Make it bigger. Make a positive difference. Even if someone calls you out for making it about yourself. Which maybe it is, in a weirdly complex way. So what? Life isn’t simple like that.

Let it be...

@Starseeking

Dressed down, with no make up, and in a mask, she'd have looked just like the hundreds of other women gathering on Clapham Common.

Nobody would have said "oh there's the Duchess of Cambridge" based on a masked silhouette!

Don’t be so ridiculous. And she could hardly have been more dressed down than she was.

Well not getting involved in all the bitching with each other, but in my opinion good on her for going along and showing her respects.

For those saying she didn't have a mask on to be recognised... I'm not high profile or well known and funnily enough people still recognise me with a mask on. They don't make you invisible.

Personally I'd think well of anyone high profile who took the time to attend something as important as this, whether it was Kate or not.

@Sparklingbrook

Well I know how I'd feel if a RF member tried to use my sister's memorial as a PR opportunity in a bad week

It doesn't matter how you would feel, and they may see it entirely differently. Nobody knows.

Or they may feel the same in which case it was distasteful.

@Bluntness100

I simply can’t comprehend how some women are attacking her for going and paying her respects. As if she shouldn’t have done. Or why anyone is making it about Meghan, I’m sure Meghan would also have went if she was in the Uk.

It’s not a competition between the two. You don’t need to hate Kate if you like Meghan.

Any woman going and paying her respects is doing a good thing. That’s it. Any woman. And any woman who has a media position then she’s bringing more publicity to this, and that’s also a good thing.

Women attacking women is awful but attacking her for paying her respects is appalling.

Or why anyone is making it about Meghan, I’m sure Meghan would also have went if she was in the Uk.

It’s not a competition between the two. You don’t need to hate Kate if you like Meghan.

So are you saying you regret being the first person to make this thread about Meghan and Kate or are you really acting like you didn't?

I think it was great she attended.

@missbridgerton

I'm really annoyed that people were stood filming her.

Fucking arseholes, especially when she didn't visibly have protection with her.

You could see two female protection officers in the video clip.