Photograph of King George V and Queen Mary arriving in Kolkata; they walk down a set of stairs, with an Indian man holding a parasol above the Queen's head and Charles Hardinge, Viceroy and Governor-General of India and Lady Hardinge following them. Annotated in pencil below the photograph on the album page: Their M's attended by Viceroy and Lady Hardinge. Landing at Prinsep's Ghat Calcutta. Dec 30 1911.

This photograph is part a series mounted into an album also containing drawings and watercolours, all of which document the five-week Coronation Tour of the Indian subcontinent from December 1911 to January 1912. The King and Queen sailed from Portsmouth on RMS Medina. The Delhi Durbar, a ceremonial gathering which marked George V’s succession as King Emperor of India, was held on 12 December.