Princess Eleonor officially knows what she will do in the coming years. Yesterday the Central Government made public its study plan, which will begin at the end of the summer at the General Academy of the Land Army in Zaragoza. It will be the first step in her training as an heiress, who, once she has completed her training at the three academies (Land, Navy and Air), will continue at university and later with a postgraduate degree abroad.
In accordance with the decree law approved by the Government yesterday, Princess Eleonor's military training will begin with the 2023-2024 academic year in the Land Army, joining the Zaragoza Academy as a lady cadet, where she will take the oath flag The 2024-2025 academic year will be spent at the Escola Naval de Marín, a training that ends on the training ship Juan Sebastián de Elcano, to do, as a marine guard, the instruction cruise.
The General Air Academy of San Javier will be the scene of the third and final year of her military training, which will end in the summer of 2026. At the end of the passage through the three academies, the princess of Asturias will have the rank of lieutenant of the Land Army; naval ensign of the Navy, and lieutenant of the Air and Space Army. She will be, by rank, the first of her promotion and, although she will not be assigned an occupation in the armed forces, she will rise at the same rate as her fellow promotions.
The Minister of Defence, Margarita Robles, was in charge of announcing the details of the military study plan, and she expressed satisfaction that in the future Eleonor will be, once proclaimed queen, and as the Constitution indicates, the first woman to assume the position of supreme head of the armed forces, which will culminate and symbolize the modernization process of the FAS.
The Government has the power to design the study plan of the heir to the throne in accordance with a decree-law, approved in 2007, with President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. In this case, although she has been determining the King's position regarding his daughter following in his footsteps and starting as soon as possible at the military academies, Zarzuela has let the Government pilot and announce the study plan. In fact, in an exquisite and not always reciprocated institutional loyalty, the Royal House waited for the appearance of Margarita Robles after the Council of Ministers to issue a statement in which it is affirmed that the Kings "welcome this new formative stage of the princess of Asturias with the satisfaction of knowing her will, interest and enthusiasm". "Eleonor de Borbó - he continues - knows the demands and sacrifices that military life entails and is very aware of the honor of training and serving alongside the men and women of the armed forces". The Kings also emphasize that the princess's military training is "very convenient and valuable" because it "reinforces the capacities of service and delivery"
Elionor will finish her international baccalaureate studies in Wales (United Kingdom) this year, a stage that began on August 31, 2021 and will end on May 20. After the holidays, and still 17 years old, he will enter the Zaragoza Academy, but his big day will be on October 31: he will be 18 years old and, therefore, he will reach the age of majority and the ability to take the throne Taking into account the existence of a single precedent (that of Felipe de Borbó, on January 30, 1986), Eleonor should star in the first institutional act, the oath of the Constitution before the General Courts, on the same day of her anniversary, but the turbulent electoral landscape may affect that date, if early elections are called and Parliament is dissolved. Zarzuela and Moncloa study, with constitutional experts, how the issue can be resolved taking into account all scenarios: electoral progress or the end of the legislature.
