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Sixty years on, we remember the 144 people who lost their lives in the Aberfan disaster.
Today, The King and The Queen, with The Prince of Wales, spent time at the Aberfan Memorial Garden and the Aberfan and Merthyr Vale Community Centre to honour their memory.
The Aberfan Memorial Garden stands on the site of Pantglas School, where 109 children and 5 teachers died when the coal tip collapsed onto the village.
Watch His Majesty’s speech in full on our YouTube channel (link in bio).
I know I write about the royals, but this from Aberfan today just broke me.
It’s from Diane Thomas, 78, a rescuer from the Red Cross who was only 18 at the time of the disaster, and spoke to Prince William.
She said: ‘The chapel had been converted into a mortuary so I spent three nights in the mortuary, bathing the children, to try and get slurry off their little faces so their parents could recognise them.
‘I took the anorak off one little boy, put my hand in his pocket and came out [with a note that] he’d had eight out of 10 for spelling. I’ve been trying all these years to think about how I can trace his mum. I can’t but I want to tell her because I was the last person to hold him and bathe him.’
This is why today is so important.
The thought that he would have been so excited to run home and tell her how well he had done and never got the chance to do so….. and the idea of an 18-year-old girl taking such tender care of each young victim amidst a scene of such terrible tragedy…..what a beautiful soul.
After the disaster, Diane Thomas decided she wanted to help children, becoming a social worker.
On the royal visit, she said, “They’ve got an empathy. Prince William’s lost a mum, he knows what grief is … the King has lost people, the Queen has lost people, they’ve already got an empathy with grief. The fact that they’ve come here today to see all this grief and all this hurt is marvellous.”
She said William told her her experience was “unbelievable at such a young age”.
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King Charles praises Prince William at lavish state banquet hours after Prince Harry calls for 'reconciliation' with his family in bombshell interview trib.al/UuKy3S5
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King, Queen and Prince of Wales to join Aberfan survivors and families to remember the 116 children and 28 adults killed when landslide engulfed primary school 60 years ago trib.al/vrr39fF
The King and Queen and have said a formal farewell to the Sultan of Oman at Windsor Castle after hosting him for the first day of a three-day state visit at the request of the British government.
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As Prince Harry continues his one-man pity party, this is what royal insiders are telling REBECCA ENGLISH, as they ask: 'Does he think we have short memories?' trib.al/iJNIDps
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Prince and Princess of Wales dazzle as they join King hosting Sultan of Oman at glittering State Banquet - with royals bidding to put 'distraction' of Harry's latest interview behind them trib.al/KXVX5lF
As Prince Harry says he wants to reconcile with his family in (yet another) magazine interview, what the inside take on his latest outpouring is……mol.im/a/16224773
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Prince Harry's interview calling for 'reconciliation' with his family which aired during a State Visit is greeted by a chorus of royal eye-rolling trib.al/tJdT2AO
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As Prince Harry continues his one man pity party, this is what royal insiders are telling REBECCA ENGLISH, as they ask: 'Does he think we have short memories?' trib.al/6U1aVUQ
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As Prince Harry continues his one man pity party, this is what royal insiders are telling REBECCA ENGLISH, as they ask: 'Does he think we have short memories?' trib.al/mJehubL
Sweet touch: The centre 12-light St George and the dragon candelabra, commissioned by William IV in 1833, is decorated with pomegranates grown on a tree planted by the late Duke of Edinburgh around 50 years ago on the East Terrace.
The unseasonably warm summer has caused it to fruit, so staff decided to use them as decorations, although they will not be consumed afterwards as they are inedible.
The Princess of Wales at tonight’s State Banquet
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