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Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
The royal couple packed a lot into their 2013 visit, taking in the holy city of Rishikesh in the foothills of the Himalayas, the Swaminarayan Akshardham Hindu temple in New Delhi, a mobile creche in Mumbai, Paradesi Synagogue in Kerala, and "Elephant Corridor" in Nilgiri, which is home to the largest number of Indian elephants in the world.
King Edward VIII
Back when he was Prince of Wales, the fated future King Edward undertook a mammoth tour which lasted several years, including four months in India through 1921 and 1922. These were the days when royal tours were about processing around, attending parties and receptions, polo races and pageants. The role call of stops included Bombay (Mumbai), Baroda, Udaipur, Jodphur, Calcutta, Rangoon, Mandalay, Madras, Hyderabad, Agra, Delhi, Lahore, Peshwar, and Karachi. The tour was so epic that a book called The Prince of Wales Eastern Book was written about it by Sir Percival Phillips.