The Princess of Wales is at The Treehouse Children's Hospice during a visit to learn about the care and support provided by East Anglia's Children's Hospices.
She also views construction work at The Treehouse.
The Princess of Wales is at The Treehouse Hospice in Ipswich today. Retracing the steps where she first made a public speech after marrying Prince William. Today’s engagements is about highlighting the work of the children’s hospice.
Karma is a bitch hey Hazhole, & so is your wife. Here's Thomas Markle 3 years ago, begging for you two to "put the past behind" you so he can reconcile & see the grandkids. You are full of 💩, victim grifting for another paycheck.
Prince Harry opens up about his relationship with his father and brother: “With everything else that’s going on in the world, the most important thing is to reconcile.”
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It’s good to see so many Welsh people call out Harry and praise William. Whilst Prince William and his father were comforting bereaved families in Aberfan yesterday, Harry was giving another woe is me interview. I just watched an interview on Talk, where a Welsh lady expressed her disgust at Harry, trying to overshadow the anniversary.
@hrrysgreysuit The entitlement is off the charts! Harry has literally done nothing to earn the title of prince other than being born, and even then Diana's oocyte & Charles' sperm did all the hard work to create this ungrateful, whingeing bastard.
Prince William received a warm welcome as he arrived in Aberfan, creating a charming royal moment that caught everyone's attention. He was greeted with two graceful curtsies, reflecting the tradition and admiration often associated with the Royal Family.
Disaster survivor Jeff Edwards has just spoken at the community centre, thanking the royals for their support.
He was the last child to be brought out alive, after rescuers spotted his white hair in the rubble.
Here he is with King Charles (right)
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).
The Prince of Wales unveiled the plaque for The Aberfan Memorial Tree at Ynysowen Community Primary School to mark the 60th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster.
@BarkJack_ Russell has always been a debaucherous degenerate operating under addiction. He may have cleaned up & found god, but I always wonder if his religion is just another addiction having moved from Buddhism to Christianity. He has a very sharp mind, very charismatic & manipulative.
The Prince of Wales, taking the time to greet the crowd who lined the streets to see their King, Queen and Future King❤️
Hundreds there of their own freewill, no need for invitation, staged crowd, staged flowers, staged scream, staged PR.
Britian is a Constitutional Monarchy because it is the WILL of the British public to have one🔥
That is why the Royals have never needed to stage crowd. The relationship between the Crown and its public is one that is genuine and built on CENTURIES of mutual trust👑
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At 9.15 this morning Aberfan went quiet, the way it does every year, and sixty years ago it was the sound of nothing that told the village something was wrong.
It had rained for days. The tip above the village, where the Coal Board dumped what it didn't want, had been moving for years and people had said so. At quarter past nine on a Friday, with the children just in from the playground and the register being called, it came down the mountain and through Pantglas Junior School and twenty houses. One hundred and sixteen children. Twenty-eight adults. A whole generation of a village gone before the morning milk.
The men came up from the pit still in their helmets and dug with their hands. Mothers stood at the edge in their aprons. Nobody was pulled out alive after eleven o'clock. The inquiry found the Coal Board had been warned and had not listened, and then the fund the public raised was raided to clear the tips that should never have been there. It took decades to put that right. Aberfan has had to be patient with everyone.
Sixty years on, the children would be in their sixties and seventies. Their brothers and sisters, the ones who happened to be in a different class or off sick, are the elderly of the village now. They have lived whole lives in the shadow of a Friday morning. They don't talk about it much. You don't, in the valleys. You turn up, and you remember, and you look after each other.
This morning the King, the Queen and the Prince of Wales turned up with them. Stood in the garden where the classrooms were. A prayer. The silence. Two wreaths and a posy. Then into the community centre to sit with the parents who are left and the brothers and sisters, and listen. Later William went to the primary school to unveil a tree.
Here is why that matters, and it's the Queen's story. She didn't come straight away in 1966. She sent Philip and came eight days later, and a little girl handed her a posy with a card that said: from the remaining children of Aberfan. She said for the rest of her life it was the thing she most regretted, those eight days. So she came back. In 1973. In 1997. In 2012. She paid for the organ in the chapel. She kept coming because she'd once been late, and she never wanted a village to feel forgotten by her again.
Her son was there for the fiftieth. Her grandson was there in 2023 with his wife. All three of them were there today, together, which they almost never are, because this isn't an engagement. It's a promise an old woman made to herself in 1966 and handed down.
That is what the monarchy is for in a week like this. Not the Sultan, not the tiaras, though those are the job too. This. A family that remembers a village sixty years after the rest of the country moved on, and comes back, and stands in the quiet, and asks nothing.
Aberfan did not need a speech today. It got exactly what it needed. Company.
HRH The Prince of Wales cut a sombre figure as he lays his wreath in remembrance of the lives lost❤️🩹
The message on the wreath is signed by both Prince William and Princess Catherine. Everytime he lays a wreath it is in their name. And the one time she laid a wreath it at the cenotaph, it was in their names as well.
I love this equality in their marriage, the mutual respect and shared affection.
They walk side by side, they make decisions together, they share responsibilities and make decisions together on raising their children, they work together, live together, holiday together and face hardship and happiness together.
They are the very definition of Marriage ❤️
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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.