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

@lynsey91 yep but when she went it wasn’t busy. It only got busy later on.

[quote Blessex]@PurpleReigns omg a mask and baseball cap would have made her even more recognisable. [/quote]
Of course it wouldn't. Wearing a mask properly hides most of your face

[quote Sparklingbrook]@JamesMiddletonsMarshmallows there's one all lower case letters.[/quote]
Ah so there is Sparkling

I started a thread with a name change username the other day to avoid being outed, and have since been lazy and overwriting in the "username" field rather than changing it in my settings. Didn't realise it would show if I used only lower case

You can only use usernames you have registered too. And as I say it would show my posts up as OP posts no matter what name I used.

Anyone who thinks I've sock puppeted should report this thread to MN. You'll find it's all above board.

Jess Phillips on Andrew Marr!!! Yes!!!

I think it was brave, letting herself be recognised so clearly making a point. She could have gone incognito, especially now that masks are worn.

Brilliant. If you change your point in the middle of a discussion because you don't like being proven wrong, what can I say.

@beyondtheshoe

What point have I changed??

I started a thread because I thought it was brave of the DOC to pay a visit - I also mentored in my OP how brave all women at the vigil were paying their respects. Where have I deviated from that?

You can post all you want but it doesn't mean it's true

How about this for what is probably the truth?

She wanted to show her respects.

She set up the visit herself (no one making her.)

She went maskless as a) it's not necessary outside anyway) and b) YES she wanted to show she was there and cared. BUT she did it in a low key way.

I can't get over all these posts.

Women hating other women.
Women making out she was only there as a stunt.
Women arguing over what ought to be taken at face value - a woman who genuinely cared - unless you have proof otherwise.

God I can’t believe some folks are arguing about whether she should have worn a mask or not,

She wasn’t intending to talk to anyone or hang around. She was simply in, looked, left. She likely didn’t even think about it. She always wears a mask when she intends to spend time round people. If this was official she’d have been told to wear one. From the look of the video it was nothing more than fleeting and she was clearly trying not to attract attention.

And yes, in a mask she’d have been recognised. Totally batshit that folks think you become unrecognisable in one. I’m always screaming in shock when I see my husband in one, as I’ve not clue who it is 😂

You don't see any connection between KM "showing" her feelings about male violence & expressing sympathy to Sarah and PA being linked to a known pedophile & sex trafficker & having his position protect him. Ok..

She's not 'linked' he happens to be her husband's Uncle, the 'link' is by marriage. He is not a close relative of hers. What is she supposed to do about that exactly?
Can the RF not do anything 'because Prince Andrew'?

Blessed, yes she can walk around without one, it's not the cornora aspect I'm thinking of, but the perfect cover to be more discreet, it's certainly not uncommon to see random people wearing masks when out and about when perhaps they don't need too.. Eg in cars by themselves.. So she could have easily worn one

@OneFamilyToRuleUsAll

There are 2 - one that's you and the other all lowercase. I've always known nobody else can have an already taken username on MN - lowercase or not.

Overwrite your username in lowercase in the 'username' furled and see what happens @OneFamilyToRuleUsAll

@burgerjack

I'm not sure why saying it was PR is nasty. It doesn't mean she also doesn't feel compassion.

I know, some women here have been using the words nasty, bullying, coercive, etc just to shut other women down while complaining about women being "meanies" to another woman. They can't see they're also being nasty to other women just for having a different opinion. Solidarity indeed.

[quote Blessex]@springisspinning you have to understand that at the time the DoC went - nobody would have been wearing masks in Clapham Common because people don’t wear masks to go for a walk on the Common. The masks started being put on later when I arrived and it was getting more busy.[/quote]
Strange then that in the photos and the video they almost ALL seem to be wearing masks except Kate

@SallyAnnWotsit hear hear. Thank goodness there are other people with compassion out there.

@lynsey91 oh stop being so pedantic and missing the point.

@Alcemeg

I think it was brave, letting herself be recognised so clearly making a point. She could have gone incognito, especially now that masks are worn.

What point, except self promotion?

Sarah’s death shocked our nation. We didn’t need RF, it was hardly a hidden cause.

This was about Sarah. Really and taste to use it for PR

Yes I know you can also use your username in all lowercase. Are you saying it's still you but namechange fail? In that case, I understand now. Was thinking you were trying to post as someone else. Sorry @JameSMiddletonsMarshmallows

And yes, in a mask she’d have been recognised. Totally batshit that folks think you become unrecognisable in one. I’m always screaming in shock when I see my husband in one, as I’ve not clue who it is
Yup

@Roussette

Wanting to pay private respects = mask and baseball cap

^^ This.

You're a fantastic example of the abject hypocrisy displayed over the last week

You're all over the M&H threads making ridiculous assertions about the Royal Family, defending Meghan regardless of the glaring inconsistencies

Yet, here you are, dissecting Kate's every move to confirm your own twisted bias

However, I doubt you even grasp the irony.

@burgerjack

I'm not sure why saying it was PR is nasty. It doesn't mean she also doesn't feel compassion

Really? You don't see the difference?.

PR is when someone set up something. It's taking away control and choice from the person they represent.

Do you actually understand what PR is and how it works? I have loads of friends in PR .

They come up with the idea for their client.
The client says 'Oooh yes, great. Good for my image (or my company.)

THAT is the difference.

@Bluntness100

God I can’t believe some folks are arguing about whether she should have worn a mask or not,

She wasn’t intending to talk to anyone or hang around. She was simply in, looked, left. She likely didn’t even think about it. She always wears a mask when she intends to spend time round people. If this was official she’d have been told to wear one. From the look of the video it was nothing more than fleeting and she was clearly trying not to attract attention.

And yes, in a mask she’d have been recognised. Totally batshit that folks think you become unrecognisable in one. I’m always screaming in shock when I see my husband in one, as I’ve not clue who it is 😂

She would NOT have been recognised wearing a mask. Of course you recognise your husband when he wears one but someone you don't know that well? Also how close were people getting to her in order to see her eyes properly (as that is the only bit you can see with a mask)?

If they were getting that close she ought to have been wearing a mask

Well the sun's out and it's Mother's Day. Probably best for me to leave the online bunfight and go and do something else.

oh come on

People who "genuinely care" do a lot more than showing their face to go on the front page of the papers, especially when they have near unlimited resources and a worldwide fame.
They don't wait to jump on the bandwagon and show no respect by using a "prominent" cause to boost their ratings, once.

And I repeat my comment from earlier in the thread. Women cannot win.