Photograph of an open topped car carrying Edward, Prince of Wales and four others outside a large building, probably the Laxmi Villas Palace, the home of the Maharaja of Baroda (now Vadodara). The Prince drove from the Station with the Maharaja to the Palace on the morning of his arrival in Baroda. The car is in front of a large porch cochere with a line of British Indian Army soldiers who stand on the left.

On October 26 1921, Edward, Prince of Wales left Portsmouth to begin a tour of the Indian Subcontinent and Japan that covered 41,000 miles, lasting 8 months. Prince Edward spent four months in India, travelling from Bombay to Calcutta and then from Madras to Karachi. As the British Empire's Ambassador, the Prince visited India on behalf of his father King George V, to thank the nation for the essential role it had played during the First World War. Moreover, the visit was intended to strengthen links between Britain and its Empire at a time of increasing calls for Indian independence.