# 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 | Dominion of Newfoundland | St. John's | Governor Sir Charles Alexander Harris |
| 14 August – 10 November, 24–25 November, 1919 | 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: ||||
| 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 | New Zealand | Auckland, Rotorua, Napier, Hastings, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch, Dunedin, Invercargill | Governor-General Lord Liverpool |
| 26 May – 19 August 1920 | 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 | 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 | Guiana | Georgetown | Governor Sir Wilfred Collet |
| 24–25 September 1920 | Windward Islands | Grenada, Saint Lucia | Governor Sir George Haddon-Smith |
| 26–28 September 1920 | Leeward Islands | Dominica, Montserrat, Antigua | Governor Sir Edward Merewether |
| 1–3 October 1920 | Bermuda | | Governor Sir James Willcocks |
| Tour 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 | Malta | 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 | 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 | Baroda | Baroda | Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III |
| 25–27 November 1921 | Udaipur | Udaipur | Maharana Fateh Singh |
| 29 November – 1 December 1921 | Jodhpur | Jodhpur | Maharaja Umaid Singh Regent Maharaja Pratap Singh |
| 2–6 December 1921 | Bikaner | 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 | Mysore | Bangalore, Mysore | Maharaja Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV |
| 25–28 January 1922 | Hyderabad | Hyderabad | Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan |
| 1–3 February 1922 | Indore | Indore | Maharaja Tukojirao Holkar III |
| 4–7 February 1922 | Bhopal | Bhopal | Begum Sultan Jahan |
| 8–12 February 1922 | Gwalior | Gwalior | Maharaja Madho Rao Scindia |
| 22–24 February 1922 | Patiala | Patiala | Maharaja Bhupinder Singh |
| 2–3 March 1922 | Jammu and Kashmir | Satwari | Maharaja Pratap Singh |
| 13 March 1922 | Kapurthala | Kapurthala | Maharaja Jagatjit Singh |
| 21–25 March, 27–30 May, 1922 | Ceylon | Colombo, Kandy, Trincomalee | Governor Sir William Manning |
| 28–30 March 1922 | Federated Malay States | Port Swettenham, Kuala Lumpur | High Commissioner Sir Laurence Guillemard Sultan Sulaiman of Selangor |
| 31 March – 1 April, 17 May, 23 May, 1922 | Straits Settlements | Singapore, Labuan, Penang | Governor Sir Laurence Guillemard |
| 6–8 April 1922 | Hong Kong | | Governor Sir Reginald Edward Stubbs |
| 18 May 1922 | North Borneo | Jesselton | Governor Aylmer Cavendish Pearson |
| 19 May 1922 | Brunei | Brunei Town | Sultan Muhammad Jamalul Alam II |
| Tour 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 | Gold Coast | 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 | 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 | Basutoland | Maseru | Resident Commissioner Sir Edward Garraway Chief Nathaniel Griffith Lerotholi |
| 14–15 June | Swaziland | Mbabane | Resident Commissioner de Symons Honey Chief Sobhuza II |
| 27–28 June, 18–19 July, 1925 | Bechuanaland | Palapye, Gaborone | Resident Commissioner Jules Ellenberger |
| 29 June – 10 July, 16–17 July, 1925 | Southern Rhodesia | Bulawayo, Matopos, Salisbury, Gatooma, Que Que | Governor Sir John Chancellor |
| 11–15 July 1925 | Northern Rhodesia | Livingstone, Kafue | Governor Sir Herbert Stanley |
| 4–5 August 1925 | Saint Helena | | Governor Charles Harper |
| Tour 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 | 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: ||||
| 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 | Uganda | 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 Harub Resident Sir Alfred Claud Hollis |
| Tour of South America from January to April 1931: ||||
| Date | Country/Territory | Areas visited | Host |
| 3–4 February 1931 | Jamaica | Kingston | Governor Sir Reginald Edward Stubbs |