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: Date Territory Areas visited Host 20–22 March 1901 Gibraltar Governor Sir George White 25–27 March 1901 Valletta Governor Sir Francis Grenfell 30 March 1901 Port Said Prince Mohammed AliConsul-General Lord Cromer 5 April 1901 Aden Settlement Aden Acting Resident George More-Molyneux 12–16 April 1901 Colombo, Kandy Governor Sir West Ridgeway 21–23 April 1901 Singapore Acting Governor Sir Alexander Swettenham 30 April – 6 June, 3–26 July, 1901 Australia Western Australia (Albany, Perth), Victoria (Melbourne, Ballarat), Queensland (Brisbane), New South Wales (Newcastle, Sydney), Tasmania (Hobart), South Australia (Adelaide, Glenelg) Governor-General Lord HopetounGovernor Sir Arthur LawleyGovernor Lord LamingtonGovernor Lord Tennyson 11–28 June 1901 Colony of New Zealand Auckland, Rotorua, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin Governor Lord Ranfurly 4–8 August 1901 Mauritius Port Louis Governor Sir Charles Bruce 13–15 August 1901 Durban, Pietermaritzburg Governor Sir Henry McCallum 19–23 August 1901 Simon's Town, Cape Town Governor Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson 16 September – 21 October 1901 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 Newfoundland St John's Governor Sir Cavendish BoyleTour of India as Prince of Wales from November 1905 to April 1906: Date Territory Areas visited Host 9 November 1905 – 19 March 1906 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 CurzonViceroy Lord MintoGovernor Lord LamingtonGovernor Lord Ampthill 15–17 November 1905 Indore Maharaja Tukojirao Holkar III 18–20 November 1905 Udaipur Udaipur Maharana Fateh Singh 21–23 November 1905 Jaipur Jaipur Maharaja Madho Singh II 24–27 November 1905 Bikaner Maharaja Ganga Singh 9–10 December 1905 Jammu and Kashmir Jammu Maharaja Pratap Singh 20–25 December 1905 Gwalior Maharaja Madho Rao Scindia 29 January – 7 February 1906 Mysore, Bangalore Maharaja Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV 8–15 February 1906 Hyderabad Nizam Mahboob Ali Khan 18–21 February 1906 Benares Benares Maharaja Prabhu Narayan Singh 29 March – 5 April 1906 Cairo Khedive Abbas IIConsul-General Lord CromerTour of Canada as Prince of Wales in July 1908 to attend the Tercentenary of Quebec: Date Territory Areas visited Host 22–28 July 1908 Quebec (Quebec City) Governor General Lord Grey

State visits as King Date Country Areas visited Host 21–24 April 1914 Paris, Calais President Raymond Poincaré 8–11 May 1922 Brussels, Zeebrugge, Zonnebeke, Tyne Cot, Ypres, Vlamertinge, Brandhoek, Poperinghe, Lijssenthoek King Albert I 7–14 May 1923 Pisa, Civitavecchia, Rome, Tivoli, Vicenza, Montecchio Precalcino, Asiago King Victor Emmanuel III 9 May 1923 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: Date Territory Areas visited Host 20–22 November 1911 Port Said Khedive Abbas IIConsul-General Lord Kitchener 27 November 1911 Aden Settlement Aden Resident Sir James Alexander Bell 2–17 December 1911, 29 December 1911 – 10 January 1912 Bombay Presidency (Bombay), Punjab Province (Delhi), Bengal Presidency (Calcutta), Central Provinces and Berar (Nagpur) Viceroy Lord HardingeGovernor Sir George Clarke 17 January 1912 Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Port Sudan, Suakin, Sinkat Consul-General Lord KitchenerGovernor-General Sir Reginald Wingate 24–27 January 1912 Valletta Governor Sir Leslie Rundle 30 January – 1 February 1912 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

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