List of foreign visits made by Queen Victoria
 | This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. (June 2017) |
Below is a list of foreign visits made by Queen Victoria during her reign, which lasted from 1837 until 1901, giving the names of the places she stayed and any known reasons for her visit.
Despite being head of the British Empire, which included territory on all inhabited continents, Queen Victoria never travelled outside of Europe, only travelling as far north as Golspie, southwesterly as San Sebastián, southeasterly as Florence and as far easterly as Berlin. The majority of her visits were made to the duchies and kingdoms of Germany, often via Belgium or the Netherlands, which was the home of many members of her family and the birthplace of her husband, Albert.
She made a few official visits to France and frequently holidayed there towards the end of her life and reign, once including a brief crossing into northern Spain. She holidayed a few times in Italy and once in Switzerland. During their married life, the couple tended to make foreign trips in late summer. From the 1870s, the widowed queen travelled during the spring.
1840s
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1850s
[edit]| Date(s) | Locations | Country | Details | |
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| 1855 | August 18 — August 27 | Château de Saint-Cloud, Saint-Cloud, Paris, Versailles and Saint-Germain |  Second French Empire |
Visiting Napoleon III |
| 1858 | August 5 — 6 August | Cherbourg | ||
| August 11 — August 12 | Breidenbacher Hof, Düsseldorf |  Prussia
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| August 12 | Herrenhausen | |||
| August 12 — August 28 | Babelsberg Palace, Potsdam | Visiting George V of Hanover | ||
| August 28 — August 30 | Hotel de Bellevue, Cologne | Visiting Crown Prince William of Prussia | ||
1860s
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1870s
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| 1872 | March 25 — April 6 | Villa Delmar, Baden-Baden |  Baden German Empire
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Visiting Princess Feodora of Leiningen |
| 1876 | March 29 — April 10 | Villa Hohenlohe, Baden-Baden | ||
| April 10 — April 20 | Palace, Coburg |  Saxe-Coburg and Gotha |
Visiting Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | |
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| 1879 | March 26 — March 27 | British Embassy, Paris | French Third Republic
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Receiving President Grévy |
| March 28 — April 23 | Villa Clara, Baveno |  Kingdom of Italy
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| April 24 — April 25 | British Embassy, Paris | French Third Republic
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1880s
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1890s
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| 1890 | March 26 — April 22 | Maison Mottet, Aix-les-Bains | French Third Republic
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| April 22 | Stopovers at Geneva and Lucerne |  Switzerland
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| April 23 — April 29 | Neues Palais, Darmstadt |  Grand Duchy of Hesse
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Visiting Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse | |
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| 1891 | March 25 — April 29 | Grand Hotel, Grasse | French Third Republic
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| 1892 | March 21 — April 25 | Grand Hotel de Costebelle, Hyères | ||
| April 26 — May 2 | Neues Palais, Darmstadt | Grand Duchy of Hesse
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Visiting orphaned grandchildren after the death of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse | |
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| 1893 | March 23 — April 26 | Villa Palmieri, Fiesole, near Florence | Kingdom of Italy
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| 1894 | March 16 — April 16 | Villa Fabbricotti, Florence | ||
| April 17 — April 28 | Schloss Ehrenburg, Coburg | Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
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Wedding of Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse and Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | |
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| 1895 | March 15 — April 23 | Grand Hotel, Cimiez, near Nice | French Third Republic
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| April 24 — April 29 | Altes Palais, Darmstadt | Grand Duchy of Hesse
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Visiting Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse | |
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| 1896 | March 11 — April 29 | Grand Hotel, Cimiez, near Nice | French Third Republic
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| 1897 | March 12 — April 28 | |||
| 1898 | March 12 — April 28 | |||
| 1899 | March 12 — May 2 | |||
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Arengo-Jones, Peter (1995). Queen Victoria in Switzerland. London: Robert Hale. ISBN 0-7090-5365-7.
- ^ "TWO QUEENS GREETING; ROYAL COURTESIES AT SAN SEBASTIAN. THE ENTERTAINMENTS ON THE VISIT OF QUEEN VICTORIA TO QUEEN REGENT CHRISTINA YESTERDAY". The New York Times. 28 March 1889. Retrieved 13 September 2022.
- ^ "Queen Victoria, who is living at Biarritz, entered Spain on [...]". The Spectator. 30 March 1889. Retrieved 13 September 2022.