Princess Leonor has already obtained her driving license: details of the challenge overcome by the lady cadet

Eleanor of Bourbon has passed the driver’s license exam. Just four and a half months after turning eighteen, the heiress already has the license that allows her to drive a car. The princess has done it at the Zaragoza Military Academy.

The first-born daughter of Felipe VI receives as a lady-cadet the appropriate training to become an Army officer. And driving is part of those learnings, although not for all the functions and specialties of future officers.

The Confidencial Monarchy portal assures that Leonor has taken the driver’s license test of her own free will. From Informalia we can confirm, as we already announced on the day, that the theoretical exam began to be prepared before entering Zaragoza. Infanta Sofía’s older sister signed up for the driving school to advance in her theoretical classes. Now, in Zaragoza, she has been able to continue with her driving studies to finally obtain her driving license.

Both his father and grandfather have always liked cars. It is early to anticipate what vehicles Leonor will have at her disposal to debut as a driver or to know if we will see her behind the wheel of her own utility vehicle, for example, this summer in Mallorca. Her father, when he was a child, drove around the Zarzuela Palace in a kart that his parents gave him.

Gift of Juan Carlos I

When Felipe passed his driving test and turned eighteen, his father gave him his first car: a gold-colored Seat Ibiza that is preserved like a jewel in the brand’s museum, which by the way has just celebrated the 40th anniversary of the launch of that popular model. Zarzuela contacted Seat when they started manufacturing the ‘Ibiza’. A model that, at that time, cost just over 800,000 pesetas, the equivalent of 5,000 euros. Juan Carlos I ordered the vehicle, of which the brand decided to make an exclusive version, since only one unit was manufactured, also enabled for the height of the prince.

The Princess of Asturias is taking advantage of every minute of her stay at the Zaragoza Military Academy to add skills to her resume. And as we see in the case of the license, sometimes the learning coincides with the desire of the young woman herself, who we will see behind the wheel probably in the summer or perhaps before. The daughter of Felipe VI y Joy He entered the Zaragoza Military Academy last August. It is the first step of a military training that will last three years with a study plan adapted exclusively for the princess. In these first months, Leonor learns Army techniques and has carried out practices in snow and mountains. She has also participated in several volleyball and fencing competitions. On the 20th, the heiress was awarded, along with ten other colleagues, a diploma “for effort and excellence.” Her superiors are delighted: “she is an exemplary student.”