The Crown Aberfan Disaster Scene
Episode three centers on the harrowing tale of a mining disaster that struck the welsh village of aberfan in 1966 and the queens response to the crisis.
The crown aberfan disaster scene. As depicted on the crown queen elizabeth ii arrived at aberfan on october 29 1966 to tour the site and speak with victims families. Though the crown paints elizabeths reaction as somewhat callous with prime minister harold wilson chastising her for the choice to wait the queen does look duly rattled in photos of her visit with the grieving villagers on the show olivia colmans queen claims to have faked it. 116 of them were children.
0710 est olivia colman as the queen in the netflix series the crown filming a scene from the aberfan disaster in south wales. Olivia colman as queen elizabeth in series. On october 21 1966 the students and teachers of pantglas junior school in aberfan a small village in wales were about to begin their lessons when disaster struck.
A nearby spoil tip or. A horrible disaster in the welsh town of aberfan leaves scores of children dead but when the queen takes a week to decide to visit the town to offer solace to its people she must confront her reasons for postponing the trip. The disaster was dramatized for the first time onscreen in the third season of the crown.
The crown captures the awful scope of the tragedy and how infamously queen elizabeth delayed her. The rain is falling in la and so are the tears on tonights episode of the crown where hosts tsahai m. The actual aberfan disaster of october 21 1966 killed 144 people.
Wilson atsayhitsahai and tehran von ghasri atiamtehr. The aberfan disaster features heavily in season three of netflixs award winning series the crown which returns to viewers screens this sunday after a two year absence. In its three seasons the crown has educated many of its viewers on events that their history books may have skipped such as the.