

Shakira cheers on son Milan, nine, at his baseball game in Valencia. The surprising ways Tesco is helping farmers keep Britain's favourite cheese affordable for shoppers Who is AJ Pritchard's new 'girlfriend' Zara Zoffany? MailOnline takes a look at the social club founder and fitness-fanatic as Abbie Quinnen is dumped Mark Wright celebrates FINALLY moving into his and Michelle Keegan's '£3.5M dream home' by ordering their first takeaway to the mansionĮlliott Wright and his wife Sadie announce they are expecting their second child as she shows off her growing baby bump alongside their son Billie 'That was being racist': Craig David blasts Leigh Francis as a 'bully' and says comedian's Bo' Selecta! impression sent him to a 'really dark place' 'Both of you do not deserve to be here': Richie Anderson is the SECOND contestant to get the Strictly axe after shock dance off against Fleur East And the last thing people want is a sobbing Queen on their shoulder.' 'She was a young mother, Prince Edward was a baby, she knew she was going to be as overwhelmed as everybody else was.

She didn't want to go there and make things worse for these families. He told the documentary: 'Everyone I've spoken to says that the Queen was really worried that she would let the side down. Royal historian Robert Hardman also suggested Her Majesty refused to visit the Welsh mining village until she could control her heartfelt emotions. 'The Queen just sat with, quietly, saying nothing, for half an hour.' She told ITV's Inside the Crown: Secrets of the Royals: 'When she actually arrived she spoke with families and there was one woman who'd lost seven members of her family. Speaking in 2020, royal biographer Penny Junor said the Queen showed 'her humanity' in visiting the people in the Welsh mining village. The Queen was visibly moved by the disaster and was pictured looking extremely emotional as she walked through the rubble Royal biographers and fans hit back and insisted the monarch was truly moved by the tragedy, and that her tears were very much real.
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Netflix show The Crown enraged royal fans when it depicted the Aberfan disaster in series three, in which Olivia Colman's Queen Elizabeth was pictured faking tears.

'The people here admire her and I think they have a strong affinity with her,' he said. Jeff Edwards, who was eight years old when he survived the landslide, told the South Wales Echo in 2002: 'She came when she could and nobody would condemn her for not coming earlier, especially as everything was such a mess.'Ĭoun Edwards, who had been one of only four children in his class to survive the tragedy, also told the newspaper the Queen had continued to visit Aberfan several times since 1966. When the late monarch did eventually visit Aberfan with Prince Philip in 1966, she was pictured looking incredibly solemn and distressed by what had happened and even shed tears over the tragedy.Īlthough many criticised the monarch's decision to wait more than a week before visiting the mining village, its residents appeared to be comforted by her presence. In the message, she praised 'the remarkable fortitude, dignity and indomitable spirit' of the village's people. Queen Consort Camilla joined the King in meeting the women, who had travelled to London several times to meet Queen Elizabeth II
