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 [d]	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]	Colony of 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 (Regina), 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: [e]
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 [f] Viceroy Lord Minto Governor Lord Lamington Governor Lord Ampthill
15–17 November 1905 [67] [68]	Indore [g]	Indore	Maharaja Tukojirao Holkar III
18–20 November 1905 [69] [70]	Udaipur [g]	Udaipur	Maharana Fateh Singh
21–23 November 1905 [71] [72]	Jaipur [g]	Jaipur	Maharaja Madho Singh II
24–27 November 1905 [73] [74]	Bikaner [g]	Bikaner	Maharaja Ganga Singh
9–10 December 1905 [75]	Jammu and Kashmir [g]	Jammu	Maharaja Pratap Singh
20–25 December 1905 [76] [77]	Gwalior [g]	Gwalior	Maharaja Madho Rao Scindia
29 January – 7 February 1906 [78] [79]	Mysore [g]	Mysore, Bangalore	Maharaja Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV
8–15 February 1906 [80] [81]	Hyderabad [g]	Hyderabad	Nizam Mahboob Ali Khan
18–21 February 1906 [82] [83]	Benares [g]	Benares	Maharaja Prabhu Narayan Singh
29 March – 5 April 1906 [84] [85]	Khedivate of Egypt	Cairo	Khedive Abbas II Consul-General Lord Cromer
Tour of Canada as Prince of Wales in July 1908 to attend the Tercentenary of Quebec: [h]
Date	Territory	Areas visited	Host
22–28 July 1908 [86] [87]	Canada	Quebec (Quebec City)	Governor General Lord Grey

State visits as King

Date	Country	Areas visited	Host
21–24 April 1914 [88] [89]	France	Paris, Calais	President Raymond Poincaré
8–11 May 1922 [90] [91] [92] [i]	Belgium	Brussels, Zeebrugge, Zonnebeke, Tyne Cot, Ypres, Vlamertinge, Brandhoek, Poperinghe, Lijssenthoek	King Albert I
7–14 May 1923 [93] [94] [95] [96] [j]	Italy	Pisa, Civitavecchia, Rome, Tivoli, Vicenza, Montecchio Precalcino, Asiago	King Victor Emmanuel III
9 May 1923 [97]	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: [k]
Date	Territory	Areas visited	Host
20–22 November 1911 [98] [99]	Khedivate of Egypt	Port Said	Khedive Abbas II Consul-General Lord Kitchener
27 November 1911 [100]	Aden Settlement	Aden	Resident Sir James Alexander Bell
2–17 December 1911, 29 December 1911 – 10 January 1912 [101] [102] [103] [104] [105] [106] [107]	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 [108]	Anglo-Egyptian Sudan [l]	Port Sudan, Suakin, Sinkat	Consul-General Lord Kitchener Governor-General Sir Reginald Wingate
24–27 January 1912 [109] [110]	Malta	Valletta	Governor Sir Leslie Rundle
30 January – 1 February 1912 [111] [112]	Gibraltar		Governor Sir Archibald Hunter

See also

• List of state visits received by George V
• List of official overseas trips made by Edward VII
• List of official overseas trips made by Edward VIII
• List of official overseas trips made by George VI

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. A newly federated Dominion. The Duke came to open its first Parliament.
5. The voyages were on board HMS Renown.
6. After welcoming the Prince in Bombay, Curzon ended his term as Viceroy in November 1905 and was succeeded by Minto.
7. A princely state of the British Raj.
8. The voyages were on board HMS Indomitable.
9. 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".
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. 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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