The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Czech Republic is the

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's foremost

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in the

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, and head of the UK's

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there. The official title is ''His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Czech Republic''. This list includes British ambassadors to

Czechoslovakia , rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי, , common_name = Czechoslovakia , life_span = 1918–19391945–1992 , p1 = Austria-Hungary , image_p1 ...

, which divided into the Czech Republic and

Slovakia Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the s ...

in 1993.

Heads of Mission

Ambassadors to Czechoslovakia

Ambassadors to the Czech Republic

Notes

a. David Brighty continued as both ambassador to the Czech Republic, and as non-resident ambassador to Slovakia after the 1993

Dissolution of Czechoslovakia The dissolution of Czechoslovakia ( cs, Rozdělení Československa, sk, Rozdelenie Česko-Slovenska) took effect on December 31, 1992, and was the self-determined split of the federal republic of Czechoslovakia into the independent countries o ...

, until 1994, when he left the post and was replaced by Sir Michael Burton as ambassador to the Czech Republic and by Michael Bates as ambassador to Slovakia.

Citations

External links

British Embassy Prague
{{Lists of heads of UK diplomatic missions