Bayan mutuwar Sarauniya Victoria a ranar 22 ga Janairu, 1901, mahaifin George ya hau gadon sarauta a matsayin Sarki Edward VII. George ya gaji taken Duke na Cornwall, kuma ga mafi yawan sauran wannan shekarar, an san shi da Duke na Cornwall da York.A 1901, George da May sun yi yawon shakatawa a Daular Burtaniya. Yawon shakatawa sun hada da Gibraltar, Malta, Port Said, Aden, Ceylon, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Mauritius, Afirka ta Kudu, Kanada, da Colony of Newfoundland. Sakataren Colonial Joseph Chamberlain ne ya tsara yawon shakatawa tare da goyon bayan Firayim Minista Lord Salisbury don ba da lada ga Dominions saboda halartar su a Yakin Afirka ta Kudu na 1899-1902.
22 ga Janairu 1901