List of official overseas trips made by Edward VII

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King Edward VII succeeded to the throne of the United Kingdom in January 1901. Before his accession, he made extensive tours of territories of the British Empire or under British control as the Prince of Wales. His visit to Canada was regarded as the first modern official visit to overseas territories by a member of the royal family,[1] and his visit to India was the first to the country by a future British monarch.[2] As King, he revived state visit to foreign countries as an important tool of diplomatic maneuver and royal influence, playing a significant role in establishing the modern form of state visit of the British monarchs.[3] Among his many visits to European countries were the first state visit by a reigning British monarch to a republic (France) and the first to Russia as well as some less formal ones that were not counted as full state visits (e.g. his visit to Austria in August – September 1903).[4] He did not make official tours of British territories outside Europe as King.

Tour of North America from July to October 1860:[a]
DateTerritoryAreas visitedHost
24–26 July 1860[7][8] Newfoundland St John's Governor Sir Alexander Bannerman
30 July – 2 August,
8 August, 1860
[9][10][11][12]		 Nova Scotia Halifax, Windsor, Truro Lieutenant Governor Lord Mulgrave
3–7 August 1860[13][14] New Brunswick Saint John, Fredericton Lieutenant Governor Sir John Manners-Sutton
9–11 August 1860[15][16] Prince Edward Island Charlottetown Governor George Dundas
18 August – 20 September
1860[17][18][19][20][21]
[22][23][24][25][26][27][28]		 Province of Canada Quebec City, Montreal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Sherbrooke, Ottawa, Cobourg, Port Hope, Toronto, Collingwood, Guelph, London, Sarnia, Niagara Falls, St. Catharines, Hamilton Governor General Sir Edmund Head
Tour of Eastern Mediterranean from February to June 1862:[b]
DateTerritoryAreas visitedHost
5–7 June 1862[30] Malta Valletta Governor Sir John Le Marchant
Tour of India and other overseas territories from November 1875 to April 1876:[c]
DateTerritoryAreas visitedHost
1 November 1875[35] Aden Settlement[d] Aden Resident John William Schneider
8–29 November 1875,
10 December 1875 –
20 February 1876,
5–13 March 1876
[36][37][38][39][40][41]
[42][32][43][44][45][46]
[47][48][49][50][51]		 India Bombay Presidency (Bombay, Poona),
Madras Presidency (Tuticorin, Madura, Trichinopoly, Madras),
Bengal Presidency (Calcutta, Barrackpore, Bankipur),
North Western Provinces and Oudh (Faizabad, Lucknow, Cawnpore, Agra, Moradabad, Nainital, Pilibhit, Bareilly, Allahabad),
Punjab Province (Delhi, Lahore, Wazirabad, Sialkot, Amritsar),
Central Provinces (Jabalpur),
9 Princely states (see below)		 Viceroy Lord Northbrook
Governor Sir Philip Wodehouse
Governor Duke of Buckingham
19–23 November 1875
[52][53]		 Baroda[e] Baroda Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III
1–8 December 1875
[54][55][56][57]		 Ceylon Colombo, Kandy, Ruanwalla Governor Sir William Henry Gregory
4–6 January 1876[43][44] Benares[e] Benares Maharaja Ishwari Prasad Narayan Singh
20–22 January 1876[47] Jammu and Kashmir[e] Jammu Maharaja Ranbir Singh
24–25 January 1876[48][f] Patiala[e] Rajpura Maharaja Mahendra Singh
31 January, 2 February,
1876[58][g]		 Dholpur[e] Dholpur Maharaja Rana Nihal Singh
31 January – 2 February
1876[59][60]		 Gwalior[e] Gwalior Maharaja Jayajirao Scindia
4 February 1876[58][h] Bharatpur[e] Bharatpur Maharaja Jaswant Singh
4–7 February 1876[58][61] Jaipur[e] Jaipur Maharaja Ram Singh II
9–10 March 1876[50] Indore[e] Indore Maharaja Tukojirao Holkar II
6–11 April 1876[62][63] Malta Valletta Governor Sir Charles van Straubenzee
16–20 April 1876[64][65] Gibraltar Acting Governor Edward Arthur Somerset

State visits as King

DateCountryAreas visitedHost
27–30 April 1903[66][67][i] Italy Rome King Victor Emmanuel III
1–4 May 1903[69][70][71][j] France Paris, Vincennes President Émile Loubet
8–10 April 1907[72][73][74][k] Spain Cartagena King Alfonso XIII
21–25 April 1908[76][77] Denmark Copenhagen King Frederick VIII
26–27 April 1908[77][78] Sweden Stockholm King Gustaf V
28 April – 2 May 1908[79][80] Norway Christiania King Haakon VII
9–11 June 1908[81][82][83][l] Russia Reval Emperor Nicholas II
9–12 February 1909[85][86] Germany Berlin Emperor Wilhelm II

Official tours of territories of the British Empire as King

DateTerritoryAreas visitedHost
8–13 April 1903[87][88] Gibraltar Governor Sir George White
16–21 April 1903[89][90] Malta Valletta Governor Sir Charles Clarke
13–17 April 1907[91][92] Valletta, Attard
21–25 April 1909[93][94][95] Governor Sir Henry Grant

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