In a bid to stop violence against women, disturbing images featuring the Duchess and Victim of Domestic Abuse have been hung across Europe.
The harrowing photograph, doctored without Palace permission, shows Kate Middleton’s face covered in cuts and bruises and has been seen on bus stops and buildings in Milan and the Spanish southern coastal town of Los Alcazares.
According to The Sun, Kensington Palace did not know that the image was used in the campaign.
Other high-profile women’s images used for the campaign include US Vice-President Kamala Harris, Queen Letizia of Spain and European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen.
Red and white capital letters alongside each image spell out: ‘She reported him.
‘But nobody believed her – but she was left alone. But she was not protected – but he was not stopped. But she was killed anyway.’
According to The Sun, Kensington Palace did not know that the image was used in the campaign.
Images are meant to shock rather than suggest domestic violence victims.
Italian artist and activist Alexsandro Palombo, who edited the pictures, said he wanted to ‘draw attention to the poor responses from politics regarding the problem of gender-based violence’ and underline ‘ineffectiveness of the support and protection system to the victims’.
But some comments on social media were critical: ‘You are not funny. Don’t use images of women who didn’t give you their authorisation,’ said one.