List of foreign visits made by Queen Victoria
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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
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. She also 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 also holidayed a few times in Italy and once in Switzerland. During their married life, the couple tended to make foreign trips in late summer, however from the 1870s, the widowed queen travelled during the spring.
1840s
1850s
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 | ||
August 12 | Herrenhausen
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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
Date(s) | Locations | Country | Details | |
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1860 | September 24 — September 25 | Hotel d'Angleterre, Frankfurt | Free City of Frankfurt | |
September 25 — October 10 | Palace, Coburg | Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | Visiting Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | |
October 10 — October 11 | Rheinische Hof Hotel, Mainz | Hesse | ||
October 11 — October 13 | Palace, Koblenz | Prussia | Visiting Crown Prince William of Prussia | |
October 13 — October 16 | Royal Palace of Brussels, Brussels | Belgium | Visiting Leopold I of Belgium | |
1862 | September 2 — September 4 | Royal Palace of Laeken, Laeken
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Visiting Leopold I of Belgium | |
September 5 — October 3 | Reinhardsbrunn, Friedrichroda | Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | ||
October 3 — October 17 | Palace, Coburg | Visiting Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | ||
October 18 — October 2 | Royal Palace of Laeken, Laeken
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Belgium | Visiting Leopold I of Belgium | |
1863 | August 12 — August 14 | |||
August 15 — September 7 | Schloss Ehrenburg, Coburg |
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | Visiting Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.Meeting Franz Joseph I of Austria | |
1865 | August 11 — September 5 | Schloss Rosenau, Coburg | Visiting Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | |
1868 | August 6 | Paris | Second French Empire | |
August 7 — September 9 | Pension Wallis, Lucerne | Switzerland |
1870s
Date(s) | Locations | Country | Details | |
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1872 | March 25 — April 6 | Villa Delmar, Baden-Baden | Baden German Empire |
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 | |
German Empire | ||||
1879 | March 26 — March 27 | British Embassy, Paris | French Third Republic | Receiving President Grévy |
March 28 — April 23 | Villa Clara, Baveno | Kingdom of Italy | ||
April 24 — April 25 | British Embassy, Paris | French Third Republic |
1880s
Date(s) | Locations | Country | Details | |
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1880 | March 27 — March 30 | Villa Hohenlohe, Baden-Baden | Baden | |
German Empire | ||||
March 30 — April 1 | Schloss, Darmstadt | Grand Duchy of Hesse | Confirmations of Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine
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German Empire | ||||
April 1 — April 15 | Villa Hohenlohe, Baden-Baden | Baden | ||
German Empire | ||||
1882 | March 16 — April 12 | Chalet des Rosiers, Menton | French Third Republic | |
1884 | April 17 — May 6 | Neues Palais, Darmstadt | Grand Duchy of Hesse | Wedding of Prince Louis of Battenberg and Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine |
German Empire | ||||
1885 | April 1 — April 22 | Maison Mottet, Hotel de l'Europe, Aix-les-Bains | French Third Republic | |
April 22 | via Switzerland | |||
April 23 — May 1 | Neues Palais, Darmstadt | Grand Duchy of Hesse | Confirmation of Prince Ernest Louis of Hesse | |
German Empire | ||||
1887 | April 1 — April 4 | Villa Edelweiss, Cannes | French Third Republic | |
April 6 — April 28 | Maison Mottet, Hotel de l'Europe, Aix-les-Bains | |||
1888 | March 24 — April 22 | Villa Palmieri, Fiesole, near Florence | Kingdom of Italy | |
April 23 | Innsbruck railway station, Innsbruck | Austria-Hungary | Stopover luncheon with Franz Joseph I of Austria | |
April 24 — April 26 | Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin, Brandenburg |
German Empire | Visiting Frederick III, German Emperor | |
1889 | March 7 — March 27 | Villa La Rochefoucauld, Biarritz, Basque Country | French Third Republic | |
March 27 | San Sebastián Basque Country | Spain | Unofficial meeting with Queen Regent Maria Christina, mother of Alfonso XIII.[1][2] | |
March 27 — April 27 | Villa La Rochefoucauld, Biarritz, Basque Country | French Third Republic | Visiting Queen Regent Maria Christina |
1890s
Date(s) | Locations | Country | Details | |
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1890 | March 26 — April 22 | Maison Mottet, Aix-les-Bains | French Third Republic | |
April 22 | Stopovers at Geneva and Lucerne | Switzerland | ||
April 23 — April 29 | Neues Palais, Darmstadt | Grand Duchy of Hesse | Visiting Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse | |
German Empire | ||||
1891 | March 25 — April 29 | Grand Hotel, Grasse | French Third Republic | |
1892 | March 21 — April 25 | Grand Hotel de Costebelle, Hyères | ||
April 26 — May 2 | Neues Palais, Darmstadt | Grand Duchy of Hesse | Visiting orphaned grandchildren after the death of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse | |
German Empire | ||||
1893 | March 23 — April 26 | Villa Palmieri, Fiesole, near Florence | Kingdom of Italy | |
1894 | March 16 — April 16 | Villa Fabbricotti, Florence | ||
April 17 — April 28 | Schloss Ehrenburg, Coburg |
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | Wedding of Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse and Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | |
German Empire | ||||
1895 | March 15 — April 23 | Grand Hotel, Cimiez, near Nice | French Third Republic | |
April 24 — April 29 | Altes Palais, Darmstadt | Grand Duchy of Hesse | Visiting Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse | |
German Empire | ||||
1896 | March 11 — April 29 | Grand Hotel, Cimiez, near Nice | French Third Republic | |
1897 | March 12 — April 28 | |||
1898 | March 12 — April 28 | |||
1899 | March 12 — May 2 |
References
- ^ "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.