Watch baby grab Kate's handbag during royal walkabout
Many people gathered on the street to greet the royal couple as they arrived, with one woman showing newspaper clippings of the Queen's visit to the village.
William and Catherine met trustees from the Aberfan Memorial Trust who are involved in ensuring the maintenance of the garden, alongside some of the Aberfan Wives group who lost relatives in the disaster.Queen Elizabeth visited Aberfan eight days after the tragedy, shortly after a mass funeral took place, despite the Duke of Edinburgh and then-prime minister Harold Wilson visiting the scene the following day.
In a letter sent to the King - then the Prince of Wales - in 2021, Gloria Davies said it "would have been unwise" for the Queen to have visited earlier as there was "so much removal working being done".In 1966, 116 children and 28 adults were killed when a colliery spoil tip collapsed on to Aberfan
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