Here she was seen by well-wishers as being supportive of those in need and on the side of the vulnerable. The story of her illness seemed to have connected. People believed it gave her a sense of understanding.<\/p>\n
A woman who wished not to be named told me that she liked Catherine because the princess had not shown “fake empathy”, of the kind associated with celebrities, but “real empathy”.<\/p>\n
A banner in the city’s square had promised Catherine “love and support”, as though she was a cause to be supported. Maybe it was a response to all Catherine’s messages of support for those in need of help.<\/p>\n
Catherine, who seemed to be enjoying the visit, issued a statement about how much it had meant to her. <\/p>\n
“I have had such a deeply moving and unforgettable time here,” she said. “Thank you to the people of Reggio Emilia for welcoming me into a culture of care with such warmth and generosity.”<\/p>\n
She had pushed all the buttons, making pasta, playing with children, listening and learning for her early childhood project, trying out her gap-year Italian language skills.<\/p>\n
There must be many reasons that Italians came out in numbers to see her – not least because she’s incredibly famous.<\/p>\n
But this will be seen as a successful first trip back on the road, with more almost certainly in the pipeline to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here she was seen by well-wishers as being supportive of those in need and on the side of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-584242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}