List of foreign visits made by Queen Victoria explained

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

Date(s)LocationsCountryDetails
1843September 2 - September 7Château d'Eu, EuVisiting Louis Philippe I
1845August 11 - August 14Schloss Brühl, Brühl, Aachen Cologne, BonnVisiting Frederick William IV of Prussia and seeing the unveiling of a new statue commemorating Beethoven.
August 14 - August 16Schloss Stolzenfels, Koblenz
August 16 - August 18Hotel de l'Europe, Mainz, Visiting Crown Prince William of Prussia
August 18 - August 19Schloss Würzburg, Würzburg, Visiting Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria
August 19 - August 27Schloss Rosenau, CoburgVisiting Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
August 27Elisabethenburg Palace, MeiningenVisiting Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
August 27 - August 28Reinhardsbrunn, Friedrichroda
August 28 - September 3Schloss Friedrichsthal, GothaVisiting Karoline Amalie, Dowager Duchess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
September 3Wartburg, EisenachVisiting Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
September 3 - September 4Kurfürst Hotel, Fulda
September 4 - September 5 Free City of FrankfurtReceiving Ludwig I of Bavaria
September 5 - September 6Hotel, Deutz
September 6 - September 7Antwerp BelgiumVisiting Leopold I of Belgium
September 8 - September 9Château d'Eu, EuVisiting Louis Philippe I

1850s

Date(s)LocationsCountryDetails
1855August 18 - August 27Château de Saint-Cloud, Saint-Cloud, Paris, Versailles and Saint-GermainVisiting Napoleon III
1858August 5 - 6 August
August 11 - August 12Breidenbacher Hof, Düsseldorf
August 12Herrenhausen
August 12 - August 28Babelsberg Palace, PotsdamVisiting George V of Hanover
August 28 - August 30Hotel de Bellevue, CologneVisiting Crown Prince William of Prussia

1860s

Date(s)LocationsCountryDetails
1860September 24 - September 25Hotel d'Angleterre, Frankfurt Free City of Frankfurt
September 25 - October 10Palace, CoburgVisiting Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
October 10 - October 11Rheinische Hof Hotel, Mainz
October 11 - October 13Palace, KoblenzVisiting Crown Prince William of Prussia
October 13 - October 16Royal Palace of Brussels, Brussels BelgiumVisiting Leopold I of Belgium
1862September 2 - September 4Royal Palace of Laeken, LaekenVisiting Leopold I of Belgium
September 5 - October 3Reinhardsbrunn, Friedrichroda
October 3 - October 17October 3 — October 17Palace, CoburgVisiting Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
October 18 - October 24October 18 — October 2Royal Palace of Laeken, Laeken BelgiumVisiting Leopold I of Belgium
1863August 12 - August 14
August 15 - September 7Schloss Rosenau, Coburg, Schloss Ehrenburg, Coburg
1865August 11 - September 5Schloss Rosenau, CoburgVisiting Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
1868August 6Paris
August 7 - September 9Pension Wallis, Lucerne SwitzerlandPrivate visit. First visit to Switzerland by a reigning British monarch.[1]

1870s

Date(s)LocationsCountryDetails
1872March 25 - April 6Villa Delmar, Baden-Baden
Visiting Princess Feodora of Leiningen
1876March 29 - April 10Villa Hohenlohe, Baden-Baden
April 10 - April 20Palace, Coburg
Visiting Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
1879March 26 - March 27British Embassy, ParisReceiving President Grévy
March 28 - April 23Villa Clara, Baveno
April 24 - April 25British Embassy, Paris

1880s

Date(s)LocationsCountryDetails
1880March 27 - March 30Villa Hohenlohe, Baden-Baden
March 30 - April 1Schloss, DarmstadtConfirmations of Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine and Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine
April 1 - April 15Villa Hohenlohe, Baden-Baden
1882March 16 - April 12Chalet des Rosiers, Menton
1884April 17 - May 6Neues Palais, DarmstadtWedding of Prince Louis of Battenberg and Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine
1885April 1 - April 22Maison Mottet, Hotel de l'Europe, Aix-les-Bains
April 22via Switzerland
April 23 - May 1Neues Palais, DarmstadtConfirmation of Prince Ernest Louis of Hesse
1887April 1 - April 4Villa Edelweiss, Cannes
April 6 - April 28Maison Mottet, Hotel de l'Europe, Aix-les-Bains
1888March 24 - April 22Villa Palmieri, Fiesole, near Florence
April 23Innsbruck railway station, InnsbruckStopover luncheon with Franz Joseph I of Austria
April 24 - April 26Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin, BrandenburgVisiting Frederick III, German Emperor
1889March 7 - March 27Villa La Rochefoucauld, Biarritz, Basque Country
March 27San Sebastián Basque Country SpainUnofficial meeting with Queen Regent Maria Christina, mother of Alfonso XIII.[2] [3]
March 27 - April 27Villa La Rochefoucauld, Biarritz, Basque Country

1890s

Date(s)LocationsCountryDetails
1890March 26 - April 22Maison Mottet, Aix-les-Bains
April 22Stopovers at Geneva and Lucerne Switzerland
April 23 - April 29Neues Palais, DarmstadtVisiting Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse
1891March 25 - April 29Grand Hotel, Grasse
1892March 21 - April 25Grand Hotel de Costebelle, Hyères
April 26 - May 2Neues Palais, DarmstadtVisiting orphaned grandchildren after the death of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse
1893March 23 - April 26Villa Palmieri, Fiesole, near Florence
1894March 16 - April 16Villa Fabbricotti, Florence
April 17 - April 28Schloss Ehrenburg, CoburgWedding of Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse and Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
1895March 15 - April 23Grand Hotel, Cimiez, near Nice
April 24 - April 29Altes Palais, DarmstadtVisiting Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse
1896March 11 - April 29Grand Hotel, Cimiez, near Nice
1897March 12 - April 28
1898March 12 - April 28
1899March 12 - May 2

See also

Sources

Notes and References

  1. Book: Arengo-Jones, Peter . Queen Victoria in Switzerland . Robert Hale . 1995 . 0-7090-5365-7 . London.
  2. News: TWO QUEENS GREETING; ROYAL COURTESIES AT SAN SEBASTIAN. THE ENTERTAINMENTS ON THE VISIT OF QUEEN VICTORIA TO QUEEN REGENT CHRISTINA YESTERDAY. . 13 September 2022 . The New York Times . 28 March 1889.
  3. News: Queen Victoria, who is living at Biarritz, entered Spain on [...] ]. 13 September 2022 . The Spectator . 30 March 1889.