The Crown season 3: Could Aberfan have been prevented amid scenes in Netflix drama?

THE CROWN season 3 was released in full on Netflix this weekend with all-new episodes of the royal drama. One of the most powerful episodes centred on the Aberfan disaster of 1966. There are references to the preventable nature of what happened in the episode but what do these mean?

The Crown returned with its third season on Netflix on Sunday, November 17, examining a number of contemporary events that took place between the period of 1964 and 1977. This included the Aberfan disaster of 1966, which is covered in the third episode of the series.

The Aberfan disaster was a horrendous tragedy which occurred in the Welsh mining village in 1966.

This is the focus of the third episode of The Crown season three as it addresses what happened, as well as Queen...
source: Express

2019-11-19 19:26
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