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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Horrific event,” one person tweeted.“I wasn’t even born when the Aberfan disaster struck, I was unaware of its existence. Which is why it’s so important to remember these disasters and to educate people,” another wrote.Others recalled how the pain of the Aberfan disaster is “still felt today” in South Wales.“Although only 10 years old at the time I remember it clearly as it was the first time I saw my father weep,” a Twitter user stated. “Such an absolute tragedy, heart-breaking.”Some have criticised the way in which the Queen, portrayed by Olivia Colman, is told in a scene of The Crown to “display emotion” during her visit to the disaster-struck Welsh village.Colman later voices the line: “I dabbed a bone-dry eye and by some miracle no one noticed.”One viewer stated that they found the portrayal of the Queen in the episode as “cold-hearted”.“Shame on the #TheCrown’s producers! It’s ridiculous how they portrayed the Queen as unfeeling during the Aberfan disaster. There’s a video on YouTube of her visit and she is clearly upset,” another remarked.It has previously been reported that waiting eight days to visit Aberfan following the colliery tip disaster was one of the monarch’s “biggest regrets”.“I think she felt in hindsight that she might have gone there a little earlier. It was a sort of lesson for us that you need to show sympathy and to be there on the spot, which I think people craved from her,” said Sir William Heseltine, who worked in the royal press office at the time of the tragedy.Follow the latest updates following the death of Queen Elizabeth II here
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