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

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

We don't know either way. That's what I'm saying really. It's entirely possible they can't even think about it right now TBF.

@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!

Dressed down? She wasn't wearing a tiara or jewels, she was as dressed down as she could be!!

Do pipe down she clearly had two ppo with her

@LaCerbiatta

OMG why is everne so naive? Couldn't be more obvious this is a PR move...

Meghan, is that you?

@Sparklingbrook

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

I know. When there is a tragic death in the family, the family comes first. But so many people try to make it about them.

'Pipe down' seems to be a popular phrase on here this week.

Are we to expect RF members will now be pitching up at every London murder scene? That will certainly keep them busy. Or is it just middle class white women in Clapham?

OneFamilyToRuleUsAll is officially becoming coercive. What do you want people to say? I’m a MM supporter and your posts are really the pits. I’m sure if MM was here she’d go too, but she’s not, so she didnt. What else is there to say on a thread about this event.

A PR move. No mask. Deliberate.

Now let’s imagine if Meghan had gone to a memorial on a day that a vigil that the police wanted to ban was happening? And she didn’t wear a mask? In a pandemic. What would the press write about her?

Have a real hard think about that.

For goodness sake she went and paid her respects. End of.

As does lovely in praise of Kate

See I think it's really obvious it's her in a mask @Starseeking

I can remember her visit women who were in a shelter due to domestic violence and visiting refugees families. As well as there must be hundreds of other charity and communities support stuff. Way before Harry go married. People are so ridiculous to think Kate is copying anyone. So was a working royal first. As well as a supporter of plenty of charities. Just Google!

I do not see the issue with her going, security or not. She was paying her respects to a similarly aged woman who was brutally murdered. I suspect she is as effected as the rest of us by this horrific story.

anything she does is going to be classed as a PR stunt in some form because of who she is.
Doesn’t mean she can’t have feelings about it and be glad to pay her respects.
It also doesn’t undermine the fact that it’s a rather political move. Showing her face for this regardless is a good thing as it does validate it whether you like the royals or not

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.

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

TatianaBis That’s really low. Are none of us to show support for this woman? Are you involved in DV prevention or funding refuges? And we can care about all of them.

@PandoraP

I think it was great she attended.

Hear ! Hear! I am sure her visit will be much appreciated by Sarahs family & friends.

Chaiandkaafee Why are you assuming we’re not Meghan supporters? I am...

There was very clearly at least one security woman with her, to the right in the video wearing a black folder backpack. I'm sure there may have been more.

I think it was deliberate that she didn’t wear a mask. Not as a PR stunt. She went quietly in the afternoon to show her support but nothing to the vigil which would have been political. I think she did what she could. Her dcs are at school near there. It may have affected her.

Someone in our neighbourhood died horrifically a couple of years ago. We were all affected even though some of us had never met them. It didn’t mean that we didn’t care or it was a pr stunt when we donated in his memory.

And yes the vitriol has got worse. The first few years I was on here people were supportive mostly. Now not so much.

@Backstreetsbackalrightdadada

OneFamilyToRuleUsAll is officially becoming coercive. What do you want people to say? I’m a MM supporter and your posts are really the pits. I’m sure if MM was here she’d go too, but she’s not, so she didnt. What else is there to say on a thread about this event.

I'm sure you haven't read my posts because if you did, you'd know my posts aren't about what you've just posted. But I know it feels good to act all superior about people's posts being "the pits" and calling people 'coercive' on MN, especially when it comes to Kate so carry on.

@TatianaBis

Are we to expect RF members will now be pitching up at every London murder scene? That will certainly keep them busy. Or is it just middle class white women in Clapham?

Are you upset with the other women who 'pitched up at a murder scene too'? Or just the middle class white ones?

@Backstreetsbackalrightdadada

TatianaBis That’s really low. Are none of us to show support for this woman? Are you involved in DV prevention or funding refuges? And we can care about all of them.

I have been since you ask. Imo what she did was really low.

Are you upset with the other women who 'pitched up at a murder scene too'? Or just the middle class white ones?

I am a middle class white one. I've made my point about Kate perfectly clear.