Meghan Markle visited Texas shooting memorial and donated food to blood drive
27.05.2022 - 13:01
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
Meghan Markle made a surprise visit to Uvalde, Texas where she paid her respects at a memorial for victims of the school shooting and donated food to a community blood drive.
The Duchess of Sussex laid flowers at a makeshift memorial on Thursday not far from Robb Elementary School, the site of gunman Salvador Ramos' attack.
Her visit was unannounced. A spokesperson for Meghan said the visit was made in a "personal capacity as a mother" to offer "her condolences and support in person to a community experiencing unimaginable grief."
Meghan also visited a community centre hosting a blood drive to donate food.
Volunteers told Buzzfeed News the duchess, who wore a baseball cap and a black face mask, dropped off two "large" crates filled with sandwiches, beverages, and desserts for blood donors.
"I had no idea who she was. She just was carrying on a conversation like her and I knew each other for years," volunteer Gloria Contreras, 40, told BuzzFeed.
"We were just talking about, you know, the situation and what happened what we were doing here. I told her about us giving out water to the people and feeding them."
The volunteer said she told Meghan about her family and of the warm-hearted small town residents of Uvalde.
At the memorial, the duchess laid a bouquet of white roses and was dressed casually in a white t-shirt, jeans, baseball hat and trainers.
She was joined by her head of security who looked on from a respectful distance.
It is unclear whether husband Prince Harry, who lives with her and their two children in Montecito, California, accompanied her on the trip, but he was not seen at the memorial with her, the Mirror reported.
The memorial overlooks a pond and consists of a series of crosses with tags bearing the names