 Before departure from home waters, she was scheduled to serve as flagship for the Coronation Review for King Edward VII at Spithead planned for 28 June 1902, but the King fell ill and the coronation and review was rescheduled for August 1902, without the "London".She thus left Portsmouth in early July, stopping at Gibraltar, and arrived at Malta on 14 July.In September 1902 she visited the Aegean sea with other ships of the station for combined manoeuvres near Nauplia.