Princess Leonor will begin her training and military career at the end of August, before university, the Spanish government announced

The Spanish government just announced this Tuesday, March 14, that a royal decree has been approved regulating the training and military career that the heir to the throne will follow, princess eleanordaughter of Letizia Ortiz and Philip VI of Spain.

According to the explanations of the Minister of Defense Margarita Robles, The 17-year-old princess will begin her military career in the period from the end of August to the beginning of Septemberat the General Academy of the Army (Zaragoza).

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“It will be three years of training. During the academic year 2023-2024. will be at the General Academy of Zaragoza de Tierra; 2024-2025, at the Marín Maritime School, where he will also board the school ship Juan Sebastián Elcano; and 2025-2026, at the San Javier Force and Space Academy (Murcia),” confirmed Robles.

The Princess of Asturias will be the head of the promotion in the period 2026-2027. without occupying the staff, the minister indicated, although she will have the rank of lieutenant.

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“They will enter the academies with colleagues who will be of the same age,” the minister added, insisting on why a military career is chosen over an academic education when asked by a journalist. After that three-year military career, he will join the university studies of his choice. “The army is a formation in values ​​and enormous height,” Robles pointed out.

As was the case with her father, when in 1989, after completing three military courses, she received the posts of lieutenant of infantry, lieutenant of the navy and lieutenant of air weapons, Leonor de Borbón will adapt to a similar regime. Therefore, he will go through three academies of the Army, Navy and Air Force in Zaragoza, Marín (Pontevedra) and San Javier (Murcia).

According to a statement from HM the King’s House on the training and military career of Leonor de Asturias, the princess will complete her International Baccalaureate studies at the UWC Atlantic College in Wales, United Kingdom at the end of May. “After the completion of her secondary education, it is necessary to consider the next formative phase of the princess, taking into account her responsibilities, first as heir to the crown and later, as the future Queen of Spain.”