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This was a complete misrepresentation of Her Majesty's response. She was advised not to go too soon as it would interfere with the rescue. When she did visit, the villagers welcomed her and one took her into their home so she could compose herself as she was so upset. This is very easily checked on the internet, but here is part of the actual story: The delay in going to Aberfan attracted some criticism and years later the Queen's former private secretary, the late Lord Charteris, said he felt he had given her poor advice. "We told her to stay away [from Aberfan] until the preliminary shock had worn off," he said, adding that it was the biggest regret of her reign. But for those left mourning in the village there was nothing but love and respect for the Queen, who they felt helped them during their darkest hour. "To come to Aberfan wouldn't have been appropriate," said Jeff Edwards, the last child to be rescued from the school, who the Queen always referred to as "the little boy with the blond hair". "The trouble with any royal visit is that you have an entourage and it just takes over and the rescue work was still ongoing. "To have her come down any earlier would have added to the utter confusion." He said the tragedy clearly affected her and she was visibly moved as she walked down from the cemetery to a local house. "When she went into that house she was really upset and she had to compose herself before she went on to meet the relatives and families who had lost children and relatives," added Mr Edwards, who went on to serve as an independent mayor of Merthyr Tydfil and council leader. The Queen walked to Moy Road, the street that led to Pantglas Junior School, where mourners had gathered to meet her. "She came across and spoke to us and I didn't think of her as royalty really," said Mary Morse. Marilyn Brown, whose daughter Janette was killed aged 10, recalled: "You could see that she was quite emotional. You could see that she cared, you know." "To me that day, she didn't come as the Queen, our monarch, she came as a mother, to sympathise, to empathise, to really appreciate what everybody had been through that day," added Denise Morgan. Marjorie Collins, whose eight-year-old son Anthony Wayne died in the tragedy, said the Queen's visit had helped the community more than anything. "They were above the politics and the din and they proved to us that the world was with us, and that the world cared," she said.

For anyone interested, please listen to the heart-breaking and beautiful song 'The Price Of Coal' By David Alexander, which is a tribute to Aberfan and all lives lost through the history of coal mining. One lyric in that song gets the tears flowing every time: 'Aberfan in '66, when the whole world cried, on a mountainside, a generation died'.

I’ve never cared for a character like I did for Beth.

The queen has no heart ore feelings for somebody else 'she is not human a puppet .🤬

The brief shots of the people vainly digging at the coal with their helmets and even their bare hands in utter desperation is just fucking haunting, especially when you know that many of the victims survived the initial impact and died by slow suffocation. They could hear their children crying for help, and then slowly falling silent one by one as they ran out of air, and there was nothing they could do to save them. Many people probably did fall to their knees and claw at that mountain of hard unyielding coal with their bare hands that day as they heard the last gasps of their dying children. What happened at Aberfan should never be forgotten, nor forgiven.

I watched this on the Crown I still think about it now, the crowns response was shameful she said she did not know how to cry but found time to cry when Margaret tried to take her life,

one of the darkest momenymts in welsh modern history

А теперь дети умирают в Палестине ,а весь мир за этим наблюдает 😓дети не должны умирать

for me, aberfan was the most touching episode of the crown. afterwards i cried and had to hug my kids who didn't know what was going on until i explained it to them

Still upsets me that no one told Princess Margaret, she had to discover her father’s death on her own.

The beautiful Welsh valleys and areas of the north of england fuelled the industrial revolution but to huge cost with nothing ever being returned from London etc where the money went and they thrived. Aberfan was rightfully the tragedy that got spoken about the most but there were many. Also there were things like my great grandfather had his arm ripped off and my housemates grandfather had his fingers ripped off in dangerous machinery above ground before even going down into the abyss.

We have stop there yeasterday(22/10/23) - when walk up and look on cementery it was rain, get to the top and then look at to the vally oh my god...sunshine in seconds - they all 116 Angels have a spectacular view forever - RIP

Miners are tough, I am surprised that none of them didn't try to murder those high ups in the coal board.

I was nine years old at the time of this awful tragedy and can still remember the absolute shock that went around the small Yorkshire (UK) community that I lived in. We said prayers at school and held a collection. We could do no more, sadly. 😢

How this episode did not win an award😮😮😮

Does anyone know the song that the queen plays on the record player?

apparently one of her greatest regrets was taking so long to take any action on this tragedy.

3:10 u can see she was told something or shown something , she is desperately trying not to cry

Non conoscevo questa storia. 😢 mi ricorda il disastro del Vajont qui in Italia, 1963. Più di 2000 morti😢

Al empezar esa escena comencé a llorar. Ya había conocido este triste caso y al que atendió la reina. Pero al verlo en pantalla y saber que iba a pasar con ese a lagrimear fue muy fuerte

The victim's families were REALLY pissed off at the National Coal Board.

Como constrói uma escola bem na direção da lavra 😮😮😢tadinha das crianças 😢😢😢😢

I live in South Wales, i've just got back from taking a friend to both Senghenydd (my children live in Senghenydd and the house they are in is one of ther few to have not lost someone in either 1901 or 1913) and Aberfan, we walked around the site of the school and then the cemetery in Aberfan where the victims are either laid to rest or remembered. If you are ever in either village please visit the memorial sites

On the 50th anniversary I wandered round Basingstoke sobbing inconsolably like a loon. RIP young uns.

I liked the soundtrack

I was 8 years old when this happened , the same age as some of those poor mites , i vaugly remember the Black and White pictures on the TV News and in the papers . But what affected me most was on the 10th Anniversary one paper did a centre page report on the Disaster , and spoke to one survivor and he said "the worse part of being a survivor is i have no friends my age , they all died that day" , a Mother who lost her child that day said "this is the only town in Britain with hardly any teenagers"

I showed this to my 97 year old grandmother in Cardiff and told her it was actual footage 😂

Now we live same thing in turkiye , earthquake destroy our 10 city

I have seen every episode of every season of "The Crown", and this in my opinion is one of the best. Olivia Colman is always outstanding, but I think all of the actors (Bonham-Carter, Menzies, etc) all stepped up their game for this one. It is especially curious to me that in a pivotal scene the Queen admits that she feels no emotion in situations where most people would. It's curious because in "Spare", Harry admits to the very same issue as a young man hearing of the death of his mother (Princess Diana).

Apparently one girl had a dream about being crushed by a landslide and she told her mother in the morning that she really didn't want to go to school because of the dream etc but her mother sent her anyway. This was the day of the Aberfan disaster...

that clip of the parents clawing desperately at the pile with their bare hands gets me every time.....

this has to be one of my favorite edits I've seen of them it's so pretty

I have been to the cemetery and it’s absolutely heartbreaking. This is such a sad loss out of pure greed by the the NCB. HMTQ did go and she kept in contact with the families throughout her reign. She apparent;y has said it was one of her biggest regrets that she never went to Aberfan sooner. It touched her deeply not as a Queen but as a mother, the thought of having a child taken from you in this way was shocking.

this is so beautiful, their song

i could have survived that. metal can’t melt. I would have put a stove on the ground, sat on it and road the waves of lava until it was cold and i can walk off it

Elizabeth II's private secretary is reported to have said she acknowledged making mistakes by not visiting Aberfan at once. Whatever may be thought of that, 'the Crown' should reflect reality. Monarchy shouldn't be used as real-life soap opera, nor just as material to fill space in the media. Elizabeth II's death has seen much publicity, not much thought about why she matters, and why the UK has a monarchy. The achievement of the British monarchy should become clear in comparison with the histories of other countries. In the 19th & 20th centuries the U.S.A, France, Germany, Russia, Italy, Spain and Greece suffered in various ways civil wars, political storms, and dictatorships. This shows what can go wrong in the absence of a head of state which is above politics, and which opposes illegal dictatorship. If there are many reasons England, Wales, and Scotland have had no civil war since Culloden in 1746, having a constitutional monarchy to unify all the people is an important reason. In the UK, 'peace' in formal speech is "The King's Peace". Of course King Charles III's first marriage was a tragic mistake; Prince Philip could be tactless; he & Elizabeth II made mistakes as parents. Whatever mistakes the royal family have made, let us be grateful for the unity the monarchy gives the UK & the world. By stabilizing Britain & the commonwealth (e.g. Canada & Australia), it promotes peace in the world. The sea around it didn't protect the U.S.A. against civil war in the 1860s, and the UK could have suffered civil war over slavery in the 19th century; likewise over world war, loss of empire, economic failure, or race in the 20th. There will always be violence and political problems in the world, and billions of people who know or understand nothing of the British monarchy and the stability it brings. Since the 1700s, billions of people have lived under the British crown without civil war, lynching, dictatorship in their lives. God save King Charles III, and his successors.

What I ALWAYS notice in these major AVOIDABLE disasters is that the scene of consternation, solidarity, sisterhood and empathy ends when the cameras are turned off. How many were blamed, prosecuted, fined and arrested for this ANNOUNCED TRAGEDY? Only the poor people suffer in the end... =^/

It was so sad thinking it was their last day to the vacation. School was going to be closed by midday. If it was next day Or it happened in evening many would be survived.

GREED!!!!!!! KIDS ALWAYS PAYS THE CONSEQUENCES OF GREED.

I couldn't even imagine what these people must have gone through losing their loved ones their and there children very sad. 🥺💖

oct 21st..my Birthday😭now I know🥺i promise every birthday I will include them to my prayers

My step dad was born in Wales and never said anything about this until I mentioned it.. truly broke my heart

did the company paid for their negligence

This is awful! That music drowns out everything!

The queen said that Aberfan was her greatest regret. I got to say its one of wales greatest disasters. RIP to all who perished.

The tips are still there now, just landscaped into ten layers

Actually it was the PALACE who called Churchill and said Hyde Park Corner.

Imagine being the sick kid who stayed home from school that day

God, Elizabeth looks terrified... Poor girl...I hope she let her emotions and grief take over her as well.

Quite possibly the single best hour of television ever made