Photograph of Prince Edward of Wales as he alights from a car possibly at the High Court, Allahabad (now Prayagraj). Standing underneath a portico on the left is man, possibly Chief Justice Edward Grimwood Mears, who wears a tie wig and raises his tricorn hat in greeting.

Prince Edward of Wales arrived in Allahabad on the 12 December. He travelled from Prayag Station to the University and then to the High Court where this photograph may have been taken. He also visited Government House.

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.