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Author: Admin | 2025-04-27
Upset and the people of Aberfan appreciated her being here...She came when she could and nobody would condemn her for not coming earlier, especially as everything was such a mess."Mirrorpix//Getty ImagesThe 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 after the tragedy. There was simply so much else to pay attention to."We were still in shock, I remember the Queen walking through the mud," one woman told ITV reporter Penny Marshall. "It felt like she was with us from the beginning."Generally speaking, the Queen is rarely emotional in public, instead maintaining a stereotypical British stiff upper lip. But in Aberfan, she let her guard down, even crying a little.“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. PA Images//Getty ImagesThe Queen lays a wreath in tribute of the victims of the Aberfan disaster.Aylward was a doctor who had come to Aberfan to help identify the bodies of the children. His cousins had died in the school.“For the Queen to do what she did, to show sympathy in the way that she did with the people she had only just met, must’ve been very difficult," he said.“She was very moved by what she saw. She tried to hold back tears but it did make her cry." The Queen has since returned to Aberfan four more times."The
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