Queen Elizabeth Aberfan Wales

Queen elizabeth ii showed up in aberfan.

Queen elizabeth aberfan wales. The day when 116 children and 28 adults died in aberfan south wales after rain soaked coal waste slipped down a mountain engulfing a school was one of the most harrowing events in queen. The queen and duke looking at the disaster scene from. The events of those tragic days in aberfan wales are now being retold in heartbreaking detail in season three of netflix s hit drama the crown. How did the aberfan disaster happen.

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. Here s why it took her eight days to visit as depicted in the crown season 3. The aberfan disaster killed 144 people including 116 children. As the show correctly depicts at first queen elizabeth ii neglected to visit aberfan sending prince philip instead.

She ended up visiting the village almost a week after the. Despite the magnitude of the calamity queen elizabeth ii at first. Here s what really happened at the aberfan disaster portrayed on the crown and how queen elizabeth ii reportedly feels about her reaction years later. Aberfan may be the scene of the queen s greatest regret but those who lived through the disaster in this small welsh village say it is also the scene of the.

It has been said that queen elizabeth s biggest regret is her response to the aberfan mining disaster. Aberfan merthyr tydfil wales landscape with crowds in the foreground showing the disaster area.