Mining Disaster Wales 1966 Queen

On october 21 1966 a mining accident occurred in the south wales village of aberfan.

Mining disaster wales 1966 queen. The crown season 3 tells the story of the tragedy and queen elizabeth ii s visit eight days later. South wales in 1966. The queen was criticized for. The queen and prince philip travelled to aberfan to pay their respects to the deceased and their loved ones on 29 october 1966 a day after the final victim was recovered from the debris.

Season three of the crown portrays a mining town disaster where 116 children and 28 adults were killed. In season 3 of the crown queen elizabeth ii deals with the fallout from the aberfan disaster a catastrophic landslide in a welsh mining town that led to the death of dozens of children. Despite the magnitude of the calamity queen elizabeth ii at first. The disaster is depicted in.

The aberfan disaster killed 144 people including 116 children. It was one of the united kingdom s worst tragedies and it was a man made disaster. As chronicled in the horrifying episode the 1966 aberfan mining disaster killed 144 people most of them children and became a moment of public reckoning for the queen. The tragedy in aberfan would become one of the united kingdom s worst mining disasters and it was completely avoidable.

The tip had been created on a mountain slope above the village of aberfan near merthyr tydfil and overlaid a natural spring a period of heavy rain led to a build up of water within the tip which caused it to suddenly slide downhill as a slurry killing 116 children and 28 adults as it. How queen elizabeth s reaction to the aberfan mining disaster became her biggest regret the 1966 disaster features prominently in season three of the crown. The crown season 3 tells the story of the tragedy and queen elizabeth ii s visit eight days later.