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

Fooling for it

The cynical people calling this a PR stunt are just as bad as the Meghan haters.

This looked like a deeply personal visit. She didn’t tip anyone off she’d be there and there weren’t any paps at the time because the vigil hadn’t started yet.

The man who took the video (entirely secretly) was an off duty news editor who filmed it on his phone.

@PurpleReigns but why should she hide her face? Why should any woman hide that they were there yesterday?

And boom. Andrew Marr is about the police reaction. Not the DoC. Same as online news. So stop hating on a woman for paying her respects to another woman. It’s sick.

Has anyone actually seen the online news today? It is about the police reaction. If that is not on printed media it is because first editions would have gone already

All the printed newspaper are Kate.

What I said above... it could've been about the Met Police refusing to talk to RTS who had a safely organised Vigil planned. And which the High Court said could go ahead.

But no, it's just pics of Kate

Yes, let's see what Andrew Marr says.

Wanting to pay private respects = mask and baseball cap

^^ This.

@PurpleReigns omg a mask and baseball cap would have made her even more recognisable.

There were photographers there all day, long before the vigil.

*Clearly a PR stunt. It’s so clear you can almost see her puppet strings.

Wanting to pay private respects = mask and baseball* cap

I agree with this. I still have respect for her for doing it and believe she wanted to, but it's just the weirdest timing after Meghan and Harry paint her in a bad light she KNOWS this will get every woman in the country onside to put her back in the most positive light.

Whilst I do think PR stunt I don't think that's a bad thing. ALL celebrities do it! No secret.

@Roussette the printed press is about Kate because the police violence wouldn’t have happened by the first editions. Stop and think a bit.

The man who took the video (entirely secretly) was an off duty news editor who filmed it on his phone.

Why release it though? Lots of photos aren't in the press.

A baseball cap?! Well, that would be a way to make anyone stand out more.

I simply have to get off this thread. Can we please STOP HATING ON EACH OTHER.

@daisypond haha my point exactly.

Yes mask and baseball cap there would still have been photos-and then we could have had 'oh look at KM trying to go unnoticed' shame she didn't own it and not wear the cap and mask. Why did she not want anyone to know she was showing support?' So still whining about it but different.

You REALLY don't get it? No one can be that obtuse?

What do you think papers write about? What sells...
You are fuelling the subject.

You cannot seriously start a thread about KM which has now more than 800 posts and then being an hypocrite about the attention being thrown on KM.

Or maybe you really genuinely don't get it.

So stop hating on a woman for paying her respects to another woman. It’s sick.

No one is doing that.

How on earth would she be more recognisable with a mask and baseball cap or woolly hat?
In the footage there were people with just that on. Baseball cap and mask. You can't tell who anyone is with that on.

@burgerjack because it's a good bit of news and he's a news editor so it's good for his job/reputation

Erm, OP, how are there 2 JamesMiddletonsMarshmallows on here. I thought my eyes were deceiving me earlier. You're not sockpuppeting on this thread, are you? Is there a good answer to this?

@Blessex

That's not what I said. I talked about the already made decision to Stop the Vigil.

Not the violence.

@Roussette ah and front pages being shown by Andrew Marr. And guess what. They are about the police violence. EXCEPT those printed before the violence happened.

because it's a good bit of news and he's a news editor so it's good for his job/reputation

not just his reputation though

@Roussette and as Andrew just said - those front tabloid pages that are about Kate will have changed by the time we get the later editions today.

@beyondtheshoe I don't get the irony of me stating a MN and then it being on the front page of the papers, no.

And you haven't explained it other than "YOu REallY doNt GEt iT OmG".

Putting things in capitals doesn't make your point clearer, you know. Learn what or I if means before Misusing it