The university and military training that Princess Leonor should start as future head of state and captain of the armies should be done in a shorter time ordinary and combining civilian studies with military ones. In just three years he will make a training immersion in the three Armies, just like his father and grandfather did decades ago. First in Zaragoza, then Marín (Pontevedra) and it will end in San Javier (Murcia). However, he will be a more demanding training in the technical part and with a more international vision. princess eleanor has given up salary that corresponds to his fellow “professionals” of just over 400 euros during his training.
The first destination will be General Military Academy of Zaragoza in mid-August of this year and where Princess Leonor will start the course as one more cadet in the military discipline. A military training that will affect leadership, values and where the dominant culture will be the effort. Knowledgeable sources of life in the General Military Academy (AGM) They agree that their training will focus on logistics, weapons, topography or discipline; and that it will be more demanding and complete than the training of Felipe VI and Juan Carlos I.
The royal decree ratified by the Government of Spain, through the signature of the Defense Minister, Margarita Robles, begins his military training, but the details are not known. In the city of Zaragoza the expectation will be maximum but not a novelty. Princess Leonor will be able to enjoy the permits and leisure outings in Zaragoza, as his father, King Felipe VI, and his grandfather, King Emeritus, did.
Of course, life in the Zaragoza Academy will not be exempt from difficulty and demand. After three years of his express training, he must add the high academic level of his classmates and the insistence on excellence in the Defense University Center. The students who enter the General Military Academy obtain a grade in the EBAU of more than 12.5 out of 14 and are young people of the same age who have a clear vocation of military service. Along with this, military life is based on rigid schedules, on the discipline from superiors and in daily austerity. A change of cycle for Princess Eleanor after her two years of Baccalaureate in Wales.
The requirement of the AGM
Minister Margarita Robles highlighted a few days ago the demanding and complete preparation taught in military schools. Of all of them, with regard to the Army, the Zaragoza Academy has been a benchmark for decades for instructing one of the best-prepared armies in the world. “A scientific and humanistic profile is obtained, together with leadership schools, where team management, decision-making and a clear mentality of improvement and effort are encouraged,” stressed the minister. will be the Military Room of the House of His Majesty the King who guards the passage of Princess Leonor for his military training. One of the experts who best knows the training given at the AGM, Félix Hidalgo, clarifies that during his time in Zaragoza he could learn to manage reactorslike don Felipe and don Juan Carlos.
During his time in Zaragoza he could even learn how to operate reactors, like don Felipe and don Juan Carlos
“The greatest learning is to meet and integrate with other young people their age,” he details. Maybe within your stay at the AGM have certain privileges like your grandfather and father had. According to Hidalgo, she could have different accommodation such as a larger and individual cabin. Or you can choose to share space in your accommodation along with two or three other cadets, as usual. “Princess Leonor knows the demands and sacrifices that military life entails and is well aware of the honor of training and serving alongside the men and women of our Armed Forces,” Zarzuela said in a statement to highlight the idea of this change of cycle of princess Leonor.
Lieutenant General in the reserve and director of the AGM until 2013, Francisco José Gan, explains to El Confidencial the plan that the future queen of Spain must follow during her stay in Zaragoza. “Military training is a training that affects leadership based on values. A whole process of immersion in the structure of the exercises with a dominant culture such as effort and to be exposed in complex situations”, he says. Among other situations that will live will be the delimitation of orders strict and rigorous on the part of their superiors. “There she will have to exercise leadership, unite and motivate her environment and herself every day,” she insists.
Eleanor’s study plan
It is known that the heiress to the throne of Spain must cultivate the moral, technical and physical areas at a highly demanding level. Princess Leonor, who will be called exclusively Leonor de Borbón or just called with her last name Borbón de ella, will receive instruction on physical strength, training or even horsemanship.
AGM sources assert that the study plan will be much more demanding than those carried out by his father in 1985 and his grandfather in 1955, respectively. In this case, when condensing all his training in three years, it should be more concise and summarized, since it will not be in five years like the rest of his future companionswho study in the first year a 70% of civil mattersbut up to 80% of military subjects in fifth grade.
Mainly, due to the inclusion of the military career at the Defense University Center, which includes Industrial Organization Engineering subjects such as mathematical application or principles of administration or political economy. At the end of the course at the Zaragoza AGM will be appointed student lieutenant. Not in vain, the instruction in values will be crucial in the formation of it, such as self-sacrifice, order, companionship or love for the country.
The academic trajectory of the future cadet Leonor de Borbón at the General Military Academy will be one more story of the 20,000 lived by cadets since its foundation, in 1928, during the reign of Alfonso XIII.
The university and military training that Princess Leonor should start as future head of state and captain of the armies should be done in a shorter time ordinary and combining civilian studies with military ones. In just three years he will make a training immersion in the three Armies, just like his father and grandfather did decades ago. First in Zaragoza, then Marín (Pontevedra) and it will end in San Javier (Murcia). However, he will be a more demanding training in the technical part and with a more international vision. princess eleanor has given up salary that corresponds to his fellow “professionals” of just over 400 euros during his training.
