List of official overseas trips made by Edward VIII

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 Tour of North America from August to November 1919: Date Country/Territory Areas visited Host 12–13 August 1919 St. John's Governor Sir Charles Alexander Harris 14 August – 10 November, 24–25 November, 1919 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 DevonshireTour of Oceania and the West Indies from March to October 1920: Date Country/Territory Areas visited Host 26–27 March 1920 Barbados Governor Sir Charles O'Brien 21–22 April, 23–24 August, 1920 Fiji Suva Governor Sir Cecil Hunter-Rodwell 24 April – 22 May 1920 Auckland, Rotorua, Napier, Hastings, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch, Dunedin, Invercargill Governor-General Lord Liverpool 26 May – 19 August 1920 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 FergusonGovernor Sir Walter DavidsonGovernor Sir Francis NewdegateGovernor Sir Archibald WeigallGovernor Sir William Allardyce 27 August 1920 Territory of Western Samoa Apia Administrator Robert Tate 17–20, 23–24, September 1920 Trinidad and Tobago Port of Spain Governor Sir John Chancellor 21–22 September 1920 Georgetown Governor Sir Wilfred Collet 24–25 September 1920 Grenada, Saint Lucia Governor Sir George Haddon-Smith 26–28 September 1920 Dominica, Montserrat, Antigua Governor Sir Edward Merewether 1–3 October 1920 Governor Sir James WillcocksTour of India and the Far East from October 1921 to June 1922: Date Country/Territory Areas visited Host 29 October 1921, 17 June 1922 Gibraltar Governor Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien 1–3 November 1921 Valletta, Attard Governor Lord Plumer 12 November 1921 Aden Settlement Aden Resident Thomas Edwin Scott 17 November – 13 December 1921, 21 December 1921 – 17 March 1922 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 ReadingGovernor Sir George LloydGovernor Sir Harcourt ButlerActing Governor Havilland Le MesurierGovernor Lord RonaldshayGovernor Lord WillingdonGovernor Sir Frank SlyGovernor Sir Edward MacLagan 23–24 November 1921 Baroda Baroda Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III 25–27 November 1921 Udaipur Udaipur Maharana Fateh Singh 29 November – 1 December 1921 Jodhpur Jodhpur Maharaja Umaid SinghRegent Maharaja Pratap Singh 2–6 December 1921 Bikaner Maharaja Ganga Singh 7–8 December 1921 Bharatpur Bharatpur Maharaja Kishan Singh 13 December 1921 Benares Benares Maharaja Prabhu Narayan Singh 18–23 January 1922 Bangalore, Mysore Maharaja Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV 25–28 January 1922 Hyderabad Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan 1–3 February 1922 Indore Maharaja Tukojirao Holkar III 4–7 February 1922 Bhopal Bhopal Begum Sultan Jahan 8–12 February 1922 Gwalior Maharaja Madho Rao Scindia 22–24 February 1922 Patiala Maharaja Bhupinder Singh 2–3 March 1922 Jammu and Kashmir Satwari Maharaja Pratap Singh 13 March 1922 Kapurthala Maharaja Jagatjit Singh 21–25 March, 27–30 May, 1922 Colombo, Kandy, Trincomalee Governor Sir William Manning 28–30 March 1922 Port Swettenham, Kuala Lumpur High Commissioner Sir Laurence GuillemardSultan Sulaiman of Selangor 31 March – 1 April, 17 May, 23 May, 1922 Singapore, Labuan, Penang Governor Sir Laurence Guillemard 6–8 April 1922 Governor Sir Edward Stubbs 18 May 1922 Jesselton Governor Aylmer Cavendish Pearson 19 May 1922 Brunei Town Sultan Muhammad Jamalul Alam IITour of West and Southern Africa from April to August 1925: Date Country/Territory Areas visited Host 4 April 1925 Gambia Barthurst Governor Cecil Armitage 6–7 April 1925 Sierra Leone Freetown Governor Sir Ransford Slater 9–14 April 1925 Sekondi, Coomassie, Accra Governor Sir Gordon Guggisberg 16–22 April 1925 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 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 Basutoland Maseru Resident Commissioner Sir Edward GarrawayChief Nathaniel Griffith Lerotholi 14–15 June Swaziland Mbabane Resident Commissioner de Symons HoneyChief Sobhuza II 27–28 June, 18–19 July, 1925 Bechuanaland Palapye, Gaborone Resident Commissioner Jules Ellenberger 29 June – 10 July, 16–17 July, 1925 Bulawayo, Matopos, Salisbury, Gatooma, Que Que Governor Sir John Chancellor 11–15 July 1925 Livingstone, Kafue Governor Sir Herbert Stanley 4–5 August 1925 Governor Charles HarperTour of Canada from July to September 1927 to attend the Diamond Jubilee of Canadian Confederation: Date Country/Territory Areas visited Host 30 July – 7 September 1927 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 WillingdonTour of East Africa from September to December 1928: Date Country/Territory Areas visited Host 28 September – 14 October, 30 October – 15 November, 1928 Kenya Mombasa, Nairobi, Kitale, Eldoret, Nakuru Governor Sir Edward Grigg 15–29 October 1928 Entebbe, Kampala, Fort Portal, Mukono Town, Lugazi, Jinja Governor Sir William Gowers 15–30 November, 1–2 December, 1928 Tanganyika Territory Arusha, Babati, Dodoma, Dar es Salaam Governor Sir Donald Cameron 30 November – 1 December 1928 Sultanate of Zanzibar Sultan Khalifa bin HarubResident Sir Claud HollisTour of South America from January to April 1931: Date Country/Territory Areas visited Host 3–4 February 1931 Jamaica Kingston Governor Sir Edward Stubbs

See also List of official overseas trips made by George V List of official overseas trips made by George VI

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