MADRID, March 14 (Reuters) – Princess Leonor, 17 and the inheritor presumptive to the Spanish throne, will endure three years of army coaching beginning in August, Defence Minister Margarita Robles stated on Tuesday.
The Spanish monarchy is struggling to restore its picture after a collection of scandals over the previous decade, primarily linked to the previous king Juan Carlos who abdicated in 2014 in favour of his son, King Felipe.
“As in all parliamentary monarchies (the inheritor) has to have a army background and a army profession,” Robles stated after a cupboard assembly.
Felipe’s eldest daughter Leonor, who will end her two-year highschool course at UWC Atlantic Faculty in Wales in just a few months, turns 18 in October. She is first within the line of succession, until a male inheritor is born, adopted by her sister Sofia.
“Sooner or later, the commander-in-chief of the armed forces can be a girl, and in recent times now we have been making an important effort to include girls into the armed forces,” Robles stated.
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The princess will obtain her first yr of coaching on the Military Army Academy in Zaragoza, then go to a naval college, which incorporates crusing the Juan Sebastian Elcano coaching tall ship, and end her research on the Normal Air Academy.
The federal government and the Royal Home have agreed her “very intense” army coaching will precede college research, following within the footsteps of her father within the Eighties.
Juan Carlos abdicated amid a tax fraud case involving members of the royal household and following a scandal over his elephant-hunting journey in Africa at a time when Spain was going by way of a deep recession.
The previous monarch has been dwelling in Abu Dhabi since August 2020, when he left Spain after a number of investigations had been opened in Spain and Switzerland into alleged fraud. The investigations have subsequently been dropped.
Reporting by Emma Pinedo in Madrid
Enhancing by Matthew Lewis
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