Getty Images The Queen with (L-R) Marjorie Collins, Elaine Morgan and Jean Gough, who all lost children in the Aberfan disaster The Queen's final visit to Aberfan was in 2012 when she opened a new ...

Mirrorpix//Getty Images The Queen would eventually visit Aberfan on October 29, 1966, eight days after the disaster. In truth, some locals didn't even notice that she wasn't there immediately ...

“The one thing I recall about the Aberfan disaster was the arrival of the Queen and how it made her cry,” Sir Mansel Aylward said in 2012. Aylward was a doctor who had come to Aberfan to help ...

A Lifelong Service The Queen returned to Aberfan seven years after the disaster on March 7, 1973 to open its new community centre where she made a speech and laid a wreath at the Memorial Gardens.

As depicted in The Crown's third season, this incident — known as the Aberfan disaster — remains Queen Elizabeth II's biggest regret. This is, as the series shows, because of the way she ...

The couple discussed with the Wives the Aberfan disaster and Queen Elizabeth II's visit a few days after the catastrophic collapse of the colliery spoil tip on 21 October 1966 that cost the ...

A disaster at Aberfan, a small Welsh community, almost 60 years ago forged an unusual link between the community and the queen. The atmosphere there today — quiet grief coupled with brief ...

Soldiers and miners at work amid the wreckage after a coal tip slid down the mountain and buried children in their school in the South Wales mining village of Aberfan (PA) (PA Archive) From ...