“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 ...

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 ...