List of official overseas trips made by George V

King George V succeeded to the throne of the United Kingdom in May, 1910. Before his accession, he made extensive tours of territories of the British Empire or under British control as the heir to the throne, including Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada and India. He attended in person the Delhi Durbar of 1911 which celebrated his coronation, becoming thus the first and only Emperor of India to set foot on British Raj. Due to the outbreak of World War I and his poor health in post-War years, he only made a few state visits to other countries, including the first official visit to the Pope by a British monarch since the English Reformation.

Official tours of territories of the British Empire or under British control as heir to the throne

Tour of overseas territories as Duke of Cornwall and York from March to October 1901:[a]
Date Territory Areas visited Host
20–22 March 1901[1][2] Gibraltar Governor Sir George White
25–27 March 1901[3][4]  Malta Valletta Governor Sir Francis Grenfell
30 March 1901[5]  Khedivate of Egypt[b] Port Said Prince Mohammed Ali
Consul-General Lord Cromer
5 April 1901[6] Aden Settlement[c] Aden Acting Resident George More-Molyneux
12–16 April 1901[7][8]  Ceylon Colombo, Kandy Governor Sir West Ridgeway
21–23 April 1901[9][10]  Straits Settlements Singapore Acting Governor Sir Alexander Swettenham
30 April – 6 June, 3–26 July,
1901[11][12][13][14][15]
[16][17][18][19][20][21][22] 		Australia Western Australia (Albany, Perth),
Victoria (Melbourne, Ballarat),
Queensland (Brisbane),
New South Wales (Newcastle, Sydney),
Tasmania (Hobart),
South Australia (Adelaide, Glenelg) 		Governor-General Lord Hopetoun
Governor Sir Arthur Lawley
Governor Lord Lamington
Governor Lord Tennyson
11–28 June 1901
[23][24][25][26][27][28] 		New Zealand Auckland, Rotorua, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin Governor Lord Ranfurly
4–8 August 1901[29][30] Mauritius Port Louis Governor Sir Charles Bruce
13–15 August 1901[31][32]  Natal Durban, Pietermaritzburg Governor Sir Henry McCallum
19–23 August 1901[33][34]  Cape Colony Simon's Town, Cape Town Governor Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson
16 September – 21 October
1901[35][36][37][38][39][40][41]
[42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49] 		 Canada Quebec (Quebec City, Montreal),
Ontario (Ottawa, Toronto, Niagara Falls, Hamilton, Kingston),
Manitoba (Winnipeg),
Saskatchewan (Regnia),
Alberta (Calgary, Banff),
British Columbia (Vancouver, Victoria),
New Brunswick (Saint John),
Nova Scotia (Halifax) 		Governor General Lord Minto
24 October 1901[50][51] Newfoundland St John's Governor Sir Cavendish Boyle
Tour of India as Prince of Wales from November 1905 to April 1906:[d]
Date Territory Areas visited Host
9 November 1905 –
19 March 1906
[52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59]
[60][61][62][63][64][65][66] 		 India Bombay Presidency (Bombay, Karachi),
Punjab Province (Lahore, Rawalpindi, Amritsar, Delhi),
North-West Frontier Province (Peshawar),
United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (Agra, Lucknow, Aligarh),
Bengal Presidency (Calcutta),
Burma Province (Rangoon, Mandalay),
Madras Presidency (Madras),
Baluchistan Province (Quetta),
9 Princely states (see below) 		Viceroy Lord Curzon[e]
Viceroy Lord Minto
Governor Lord Lamington
Governor Lord Ampthill
15–17 November 1905[67][68]  Indore[f] Indore Maharaja Tukojirao Holkar III
18–20 November 1905[69][70] Udaipur[f] Udaipur Maharana Fateh Singh
21–23 November 1905[71][72] Jaipur[f] Jaipur Maharaja Madho Singh II
24–27 November 1905[73][74]  Bikaner[f] Bikaner Maharaja Ganga Singh
9–10 December 1905[75] Jammu and Kashmir[f] Jammu Maharaja Pratap Singh
20–25 December 1905[76][77]  Gwalior[f] Gwalior Maharaja Madho Rao Scindia
29 January – 7 February 1906
[78][79] 		 Mysore[f] Mysore, Bangalore Maharaja Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV
8–15 February 1906[80][81]  Hyderabad[f] Hyderabad Nizam Mahboob Ali Khan
18–21 February 1906[82][83] Benares[f] Benares Maharaja Prabhu Narayan Singh
29 March – 5 April 1906
[84][85] 		 Khedivate of Egypt Cairo Khedive Abbas II
Consul-General Lord Cromer

State visits as King

Date Country Areas visited Host
21–24 April 1914
[86][87] 		 France Paris, Calais President Raymond Poincaré
8–11 May 1922
[88][89][90][g] 		 Belgium Brussels, Zeebrugge, Zonnebeke, Tyne Cot, Ypres, Vlamertinge, Brandhoek, Poperinghe, Lijssenthoek King Albert I
7–14 May 1923
[91][92][93][94][h] 		 Italy Pisa, Civitavecchia, Rome, Tivoli, Vicenza, Montecchio Precalcino, Asiago King Victor Emmanuel III
9 May 1923[95]  Holy See Vatican City Pope Pius XI

Official tours of territories of the British Empire or under British control as King-Emperor

Tour of India to attend Delhi Durbar from November 1911 to February 1912:[i]
Date Territory Areas visited Host
20–22 November 1911[96][97]  Khedivate of Egypt Port Said Khedive Abbas II
Consul-General Lord Kitchener
27 November 1911[98] Aden Settlement Aden Resident Sir James Alexander Bell
2–17 December 1911,
29 December 1911 –
10 January 1912
[99][100][101][102][103][104][105] 		 India Bombay Presidency (Bombay),
Punjab Province (Delhi),
Bengal Presidency (Calcutta),
Central Provinces and Berar (Nagpur) 		Viceroy Lord Hardinge
Governor Sir George Clarke
17 January 1912[106] United KingdomKhedivate of Egypt Anglo-Egyptian Sudan[j] Port Sudan, Suakin, Sinkat Consul-General Lord Kitchener
Governor-General Sir Reginald Wingate
24–27 January 1912[107][108]  Malta Valletta Governor Sir Leslie Rundle
30 January – 1 February 1912
[109][110] 		Gibraltar Governor Sir Archibald Hunter

See also

Notes

  1. ^ The voyages were on board RMS Ophir.
  2. ^ An autonomous tributary state of the Ottoman Empire under British control.
  3. ^ A territory under the administration of the British Raj.
  4. ^ The voyages were on board HMS Renown.
  5. ^ After welcoming the Prince in Bombay, Curzon ended his term as Viceroy in November 1905 and was succeeded by Minto.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i A princely state of the British Raj.
  7. ^ One of the main purposes of this visit was to pay tribute to World War I cemeteries and memorials being constructed in Belgium and northern France by the Imperial War Graves Commission which was dubbed "The King's Pilgrimage".
  8. ^ One of the main purposes of this visit was to pay tribute to World War I cemeteries and memorials of British soldiers in northern Italy.
  9. ^ The King took part in a hunting trip in Nepal over 18–28 December 1911 arranged by the Prime Minister. The voyages were on board RMS Medina.
  10. ^ A territory whose sovereignty and administration were shared between both Egypt and the United Kingdom in name but was in practice under British control.

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