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List of official overseas trips made by Edward VIII

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King Edward VIII succeeded to the thrones of the United Kingdom and the dominions in January and abdicated in December 1936. As Prince of Wales (1910–1936), he made extensive official tours of dominions and territories of the British Empire, but he did not make any state visits or official tours of overseas territories as King during his short reign.

Official tours of Dominions and territories of the British Empire as Prince of Wales

More information Tour of North America from August to November 1919:, Date ...
Tour of North America from August to November 1919:[a]
DateCountry/TerritoryAreas visitedHost
12–13 August 1919[3] Dominion of Newfoundland St. John's Governor Sir Charles Alexander Harris
14 August – 10 November,
24–25 November, 1919
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Canada New Brunswick (Saint John),
Nova Scotia (Halifax),
Prince Edward Island (Charlottetown),
Quebec (Quebec City, Montreal),
Ontario (Toronto, Ottawa, North Bay, Greater Sudbury, Sault Ste. Marie, Hamilton, Niagara Falls, Brantford, London, Windsor, Kingston),
Manitoba (Winnipeg),
Saskatchewan (Saskatoon, Regina),
Alberta (Edmonton, Calgary, Banff, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat),
British Columbia (Vancouver, Victoria)
Governor General Duke of Devonshire
Tour of Oceania and the West Indies from March to October 1920:[b]
DateCountry/TerritoryAreas visitedHost
26–27 March 1920[29] Barbados Governor Sir Charles O'Brien
21–22 April, 23–24 August,
1920[30][31]
Fiji Suva Governor Sir Cecil Hunter-Rodwell
24 April – 22 May 1920
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New Zealand Auckland, Rotorua, Napier, Hastings, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch, Dunedin, Invercargill Governor-General Lord Liverpool
26 May – 19 August 1920
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Australia Victoria (Melbourne),
New South Wales (Sydney, Newcastle),
Federal Capital Territory (Canberra),
Western Australia (Perth),
South Australia (Adelaide),
Tasmania (Hobart, Launceston),
Queensland (Brisbane, Toowoomba)
Governor-General Sir Ronald Ferguson
Governor Sir Walter Davidson
Governor Sir Francis Newdegate
Governor Sir Archibald Weigall
Governor Sir William Allardyce
27 August 1920[50][51] Territory of Western Samoa[c] Apia Administrator Robert Tate
17–20, 23–24, September
1920[52][53]
Trinidad and Tobago Port of Spain Governor Sir John Chancellor
21–22 September 1920[54][53] Guiana Georgetown Governor Sir Wilfred Collet
24–25 September 1920[55] Windward Islands Grenada, Saint Lucia Governor Sir George Haddon-Smith
26–28 September 1920[56][57] Leeward Islands Dominica, Montserrat, Antigua Governor Sir Edward Merewether
1–3 October 1920[58][59] Bermuda Governor Sir James Willcocks
Tour of India and the Far East from October 1921 to June 1922:[d]
DateCountry/TerritoryAreas visitedHost
29 October 1921,
17 June 1922[69][70]
Gibraltar Governor Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien
1–3 November 1921[71][72] Malta Valletta, Attard Governor Lord Plumer
12 November 1921[73] Aden Settlement[e] Aden Resident Thomas Edwin Scott
17 November –
13 December 1921,
21 December 1921 –
17 March 1922[74]
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India Bombay Presidency (Bombay, Poona, Mhow, Karachi),
Ajmer-Merwara Province (Ajmer),
United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (Lucknow, Allahabad, Agra, Dehradun, Gajraula),
Bihar and Orissa Province (Patna),
Bengal Presidency (Calcutta),
Burma Province (Rangoon, Mandalay),
Madras Presidency (Madras),
Central Provinces and Berar (Nagpur),
Delhi Province (Delhi),
Punjab Province (Jullundur, Lahore, Sialkot, Jhelum, Taxila, Rawalpindi),
North-West Frontier Province (Peshawar, Mardan),
14 Princely states (see below)
Viceroy Lord Reading
Governor Sir George Lloyd
Governor Sir Harcourt Butler
Acting Governor Havilland Le Mesurier
Governor Lord Ronaldshay
Governor Lord Willingdon
Governor Sir Frank Sly
Governor Sir Edward MacLagan
23–24 November 1921[96] Baroda[f] Baroda Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III
25–27 November 1921[97] Udaipur[f] Udaipur Maharana Fateh Singh
29 November –
1 December 1921[98]
Jodhpur[f] Jodhpur Maharaja Umaid Singh
Regent Maharaja Pratap Singh
2–6 December 1921[99][100] Bikaner[f] Bikaner Maharaja Ganga Singh
7–8 December 1921[101] Bharatpur[f] Bharatpur Maharaja Kishan Singh
13 December 1921[102] Benares[f] Benares Maharaja Prabhu Narayan Singh
18–23 January 1922[103][104] Mysore[f] Bangalore, Mysore Maharaja Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV
25–28 January 1922[105][106] Hyderabad[f] Hyderabad Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan
1–3 February 1922[107][108] Indore[f] Indore Maharaja Tukojirao Holkar III
4–7 February 1922[109] Bhopal[f] Bhopal Begum Sultan Jahan
8–12 February 1922[110][111] Gwalior[f] Gwalior Maharaja Madho Rao Scindia
22–24 February 1922[112][113] Patiala[f] Patiala Maharaja Bhupinder Singh
2–3 March 1922[114][90] Jammu and Kashmir[f] Satwari Maharaja Pratap Singh
13 March 1922[115] Kapurthala[f] Kapurthala Maharaja Jagatjit Singh
21–25 March, 27–30 May,
1922[116][117][118][119]
Ceylon Colombo, Kandy, Trincomalee Governor Sir William Manning
28–30 March 1922[120][121] Federated Malay States[g] Port Swettenham, Kuala Lumpur High Commissioner Sir Laurence Guillemard[h]
Sultan Sulaiman of Selangor
31 March – 1 April, 17 May,
23 May, 1922[122][123][124][125]
Straits Settlements Singapore, Labuan, Penang Governor Sir Laurence Guillemard
6–8 April 1922[126][127] Hong Kong Governor Sir Edward Stubbs
18 May 1922[128] North Borneo Jesselton Governor Aylmer Cavendish Pearson
19 May 1922[124] Brunei[i] Brunei Town Sultan Muhammad Jamalul Alam II
Tour of West and Southern Africa from April to August 1925:[j]
DateCountry/TerritoryAreas visitedHost
4 April 1925[129] Gambia Barthurst Governor Cecil Armitage
6–7 April 1925[130][131] Sierra Leone Freetown Governor Sir Ransford Slater
9–14 April 1925[132][133] Gold Coast Sekondi, Coomassie, Accra Governor Sir Gordon Guggisberg
16–22 April 1925
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Nigeria Iddo Island, Ilorin, Zaria, Kano, Ibadan, Lagos Governor Sir Hugh Clifford
30 April – 28 May,
30 May – 14 June,
15–26 June, 20–29 July,
1925[139][140][141]
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Union of South Africa Cape Province (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Oudtshoorn, Port Elizabeth, Uitenhage, East London, Umtata, Kimberley, Simon's Town),
Orange Free State (Bloemfontein, Harrismith),
Natal (Ladysmith, Durban, Pietermaritzburg),
Transvaal (Ermelo, Pietersburg, Pretoria, Johannesburg, Mafeking)
Governor-General Lord Athlone
28–30 May 1925[160][161] Basutoland Maseru Resident Commissioner Sir Edward Garraway
Chief Nathaniel Griffith Lerotholi
14–15 June[151][152] Swaziland Mbabane Resident Commissioner de Symons Honey
Chief Sobhuza II
27–28 June, 18–19 July, 1925
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Bechuanaland Palapye, Gaborone Resident Commissioner Jules Ellenberger
29 June – 10 July, 16–17 July,
1925[162][164][165][166][167]
Southern Rhodesia Bulawayo, Matopos, Salisbury, Gatooma, Que Que Governor Sir John Chancellor
11–15 July 1925[168][169][170] Northern Rhodesia Livingstone, Kafue Governor Sir Herbert Stanley
4–5 August 1925[171][172] Saint Helena Governor Charles Harper
Tour of Canada from July to September 1927 to attend the Diamond Jubilee of Canadian Confederation:
DateCountry/TerritoryAreas visitedHost
30 July – 7 September 1927
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Canada Quebec (Quebec City, Montreal),
Ontario (Ottawa, Brockville, Kingston, Toronto, Niagara Falls),
Alberta (Calgary, Edmonton, Banff),
British Columbia (Vancouver, Victoria),
Saskatchewan (Regina),
Manitoba (Winnipeg)
Governor General Lord Willingdon
Tour of East Africa from September to December 1928:[k]
DateCountry/TerritoryAreas visitedHost
28 September – 14 October,
30 October – 15 November,
1928
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Kenya Mombasa, Nairobi, Kitale, Eldoret, Nakuru Governor Sir Edward Grigg
15–29 October 1928
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Uganda Entebbe, Kampala, Fort Portal, Mukono Town, Lugazi, Jinja Governor Sir William Gowers
15–30 November,
1–2 December, 1928
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Tanganyika Territory[l] Arusha, Babati, Dodoma, Dar es Salaam Governor Sir Donald Cameron
30 November – 1 December
1928[198][199]
Sultanate of Zanzibar[i] Sultan Khalifa bin Harub
Resident Sir Claud Hollis
Tour of South America from January to April 1931:[m]
DateCountry/TerritoryAreas visitedHost
3–4 February 1931[200][201] Jamaica Kingston Governor Sir Edward Stubbs
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Notes

  1. The Prince paid a visit to the United States over 10–21 November.[1][2] The voyages were on board HMS Renown.
  2. The prince paid unofficial visits to Panama, the United States, Territory of Hawaii and Mexico en route. The voyages were on board HMS Renown.
  3. A former German colony under the occupation and administration of New Zealand.
  4. The Prince paid an unofficial visit to the Sultanate of Egypt over 5–6 November,[60] took part in a hunting trip in Nepal arranged by the Prime Minister over 14–21 December,[61][62] paid a visit to Japan over 12 April – 9 May,[63][64] and paid unofficial visit to the Philippines over 13–15 May[65][66] and to the Kingdom of Egypt over 9–12 June.[67][68] The voyages were on board HMS Renown.
  5. A territory under the administration of the British Raj.
  6. A princely state of the British Raj.
  7. A federation of British protectorates.
  8. Also Governor of the Straits Settlements.
  9. A British protectorate.
  10. The Prince paid visits to Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Chile over August–September. The voyages were on board HMS Repulse.
  11. The Prince paid unofficial visits to Egypt, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and Aden Settlement en route.
  12. A League of Nations mandate under the administration of the United Kingdom.
  13. The Prince paid paid visits to Cuba, Panama, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil and paid unofficial visits to Bermuda and Portugal en route.

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