The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Luxembourg is the
United Kingdom
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's foremost
diplomatic representative
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in the
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small lan ...
, and in charge of the UK's
diplomatic mission
A diplomatic mission or foreign mission is a group of people from a state or organization present in another state to represent the sending state or organization officially in the receiving or host state. In practice, the phrase usually deno ...
in Luxembourg. The official title is ''His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg''.
From 1815 to 1890 the
King of the Netherlands
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was also
Grand Duke of Luxembourg
The Grand Duke of Luxembourg ( lb, Groussherzog vu Lëtzebuerg, french: Grand-duc de Luxembourg, german: Großherzog von Luxemburg) is the monarchical head of state of Luxembourg. Luxembourg has been a grand duchy since 15 March 1815, when it w ...
in
personal union
A personal union is the combination of two or more states that have the same monarch while their boundaries, laws, and interests remain distinct. A real union, by contrast, would involve the constituent states being to some extent interlink ...
, so the British envoy at
The Hague
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was also envoy to Luxembourg. After the personal union was broken in 1890 the British envoy at The Hague continued to be
concurrently accredited to Luxembourg until 1922. The
Ambassador to Belgium was responsible for Luxembourg from 1922 until 1940, when Luxembourg was overrun by
Nazi Germany
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. Upon liberation of Luxembourg in 1944 a ''
chargé d'affaires'' was briefly resident in Luxembourg, followed by a resident military mission with diplomatic responsibility reverting to
Brussels
Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...
; but a resident head of mission was soon restored, in 1949. Geoffrey Alchin held the title of
Minister until he was upgraded to Ambassador in 1955; since then the heads of mission have been Ambassadors.
List of heads of mission
References
External links
UK and Luxembourg gov.uk
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{{Lists of heads of UK diplomatic missions
Luxembourg
Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small lan ...
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and North ...