Everyone’s favorite duchess, Kate Middleton, with her husband in tow (who did she marry again?), made a somber state visit to Birmingham today to meet families of three men who died during the Birmingham riots of the previous week.
Haroon Jahan, 21, Shazad Ali, 30, and Abdul Musavir, 31, were struck by a car and killed in Birmingham, England on August 10 as they tried to protect shops and homes from rioters. Their burial yesterday drew 20,000 mourners.
Duchess Catherine and Prince William met the parents of the deceased for 15 minutes before moving on to meet emergency crews and hospital staff who handled the fallout from the riots, according to the Daily Mail.
The paper interviewed a nurse manager at Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Mandy Sankey, who “said William and Kate seemed ‘genuinely interested’ in how hospitals in the city responded to the disorder.”
Birmingham’s riots caused an estimated 100 million British pounds sterling.
