List of foreign visits made by Queen Victoria

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)		Locations	Country	Details
1843	September 2 — September 7	Château d'Eu, Eu	July Monarchy	Visiting Louis Philippe I
1845	August 11 — August 14	Schloss Brühl, Brühl, Aachen Cologne, Bonn	Prussia	Visiting Frederick William IV of Prussia and seeing the unveiling of a new statue commemorating Beethoven.
	August 14 — August 16	Schloss Stolzenfels, Koblenz	Prussia
	August 16 — August 18	Hotel de l'Europe, Mainz,	Grand Duchy of Hesse	Visiting Crown Prince William of Prussia
	August 18 — August 19	Schloss Würzburg, Würzburg,	Kingdom of Bavaria	Visiting Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria
	August 19 — August 27	Schloss Rosenau, Coburg	Saxe-Coburg and Gotha	Visiting Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
	August 27	Elisabethenburg Palace, Meiningen		Visiting Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
	August 27 — August 28	Reinhardsbrunn, Friedrichroda
	August 28 — September 3	Schloss Friedrichsthal, Gotha		Visiting Karoline Amalie, Dowager Duchess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
	September 3	Wartburg, Eisenach	Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach	Visiting Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
	September 3 — September 4	Kurfürst Hotel, Fulda	Grand Duchy of Hesse
	September 4 — September 5	Hotel d'Angleterre, Frankfurt	Free City of Frankfurt	Receiving Ludwig I of Bavaria
	September 5 — September 6	Hotel, Deutz	Prussia
	September 6 — September 7	Antwerp	Belgium	Visiting Leopold I of Belgium
	September 8 — September 9	Château d'Eu, Eu	July Monarchy	Visiting Louis Philippe I

1850s

Date(s)		Locations	Country	Details
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	Second French Empire	Visiting Napoleon III
	August 11 — August 12	Breidenbacher Hof, Düsseldorf	Prussia
	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

Date(s)		Locations	Country	Details
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	Belgium	Visiting Leopold I of Belgium
	September 5 — October 3	Reinhardsbrunn, Friedrichroda	Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
	October 3 — October 17	Palace, Coburg	Saxe-Coburg and Gotha	Visiting Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
	October 18 — October 2	Royal Palace of Laeken, Laeken	Belgium	Visiting Leopold I of Belgium
1863	August 12 — August 14	Royal Palace of Laeken, Laeken	Belgium	Visiting Leopold I of Belgium
1863	August 15 — September 7	Schloss Rosenau, Coburg, 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	Saxe-Coburg and Gotha	Visiting Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
1868	August 6	Paris	Second French Empire
1868	August 7 — September 9	Pension Wallis, Lucerne	Switzerland	Private visit. First visit to Switzerland by a reigning British monarch.^[1]

1870s

Date(s)		Locations	Country	Details
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	Baden German Empire
	April 10 — April 20	Palace, Coburg	Saxe-Coburg and Gotha	Visiting Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
	April 10 — April 20	Palace, Coburg	German Empire	Visiting Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
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
1880	March 27 — March 30	Villa Hohenlohe, Baden-Baden	Baden
	March 27 — March 30	Villa Hohenlohe, Baden-Baden	German Empire
	March 30 — April 1	Schloss, Darmstadt	Grand Duchy of Hesse	Confirmations of Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine and Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine
	March 30 — April 1	Schloss, Darmstadt	German Empire
	April 1 — April 15	Villa Hohenlohe, Baden-Baden	Baden
	April 1 — April 15	Villa Hohenlohe, 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
1884	April 17 — May 6	Neues Palais, Darmstadt	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
	April 23 — May 1	Neues Palais, Darmstadt	German Empire
1887	April 1 — April 4	Villa Edelweiss, Cannes	French Third Republic
1887	April 6 — April 28	Maison Mottet, Hotel de l'Europe, Aix-les-Bains	French Third Republic
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.^[2]^[3]
	March 27 — April 27	Villa La Rochefoucauld, Biarritz, Basque Country	French Third Republic

1890s

Date(s)		Locations	Country	Details
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
	April 23 — April 29	Neues Palais, Darmstadt	German Empire
1891	March 25 — April 29	Grand Hotel, Grasse	French Third Republic
1892	March 21 — April 25	Grand Hotel de Costebelle, Hyères	French Third Republic
	April 26 — May 2	Neues Palais, Darmstadt	Grand Duchy of Hesse	Visiting orphaned grandchildren after the death of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse
	April 26 — May 2	Neues Palais, Darmstadt	German Empire
1893	March 23 — April 26	Villa Palmieri, Fiesole, near Florence	Kingdom of Italy
1894	March 16 — April 16	Villa Fabbricotti, Florence	Kingdom of Italy
	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
	April 17 — April 28	Schloss Ehrenburg, Coburg	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
	April 24 — April 29	Altes Palais, Darmstadt	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

^ 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.

Sources

Queen Victoria's Journals

[1] Arengo-Jones, Peter (1995). Queen Victoria in Switzerland. London: Robert Hale. ISBN 0-7090-5365-7.

[2] "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.

[3] "Queen Victoria, who is living at Biarritz, entered Spain on [...]". The Spectator. 30 March 1889. Retrieved 13 September 2022.

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