“Put on a show?” the queen fires back, face pinched. “The crown doesn’t do that.” In reality, Elizabeth did visit Aberfan, though she waited until eight days after the tragedy. It has ...

Bafta-winner Colman will star as the Queen in the third series of the hit drama to be shown next year. She has been filming a recreation of events after the Aberfan tragedy on 21 October 1966 ...

Aberfan disaster: how many people died & why did the Queen delay her visit? AT 9.15am on October 21, 1966, a disaster struck a small Welsh mining community which would devastate the village for a ...