Queen Elizabeth Wales 1966

Here s why it took her eight days to visit as depicted in the crown season 3.

Queen elizabeth wales 1966. Getty images who was responsible for the catastrophe. Despite the magnitude of the calamity queen elizabeth ii at first. Source photograph from the illustrated london news archive 1966 february page 38. Elizabeth ii elizabeth alexandra mary born 21 april 1926 is queen of the united kingdom and 15 other commonwealth realms.

Queen elizabeth ii visits aberfan in wales a few days after a coal tip collapsed on the local school killing 141 children and four adults. Elizabeth was born in mayfair london as the first child of the duke and duchess of york later king george vi and queen elizabeth her father ascended the throne on the abdication of his brother king edward viii in 1936 from which time she was the heir presumptive. As the show correctly depicts at first queen elizabeth ii neglected to visit aberfan sending prince philip instead. There are several possible answers to this question.

The aberfan disaster killed 144 people including 116 children. On october 21 1966 a mining accident occurred in the south wales village of aberfan. Rescue workers search for victims of the aberfan disaster in south wales 1966. It has been said that queen elizabeth s biggest regret is her response to the aberfan mining disaster.

She ended up visiting the village almost a week after the. The tragedy in aberfan would become one of the united kingdom s worst mining disasters and it was completely avoidable. In 1966 a coal waste tip collapsed and slid into a school in the mining village of aberfan in wales. The third season of the crown tackles a dark moment in the history of the united kingdom.