Princess Leonor will be the boss after the summer at the Juan Sebastián Elcano

Leonor de Borbón is a cadet second lieutenant, an appointment she received from her father, King Felipe VI, thus completing her first stage of military training at the General Military Academy in Zaragoza. She was also awarded the Grand Cross of Military Merit with white insignia, an act that put an end to her five-year training and in which the instruction she will undergo on board the Navy training ship Juan Sebastián de Elcano, on which she will embark on a voyage through the Americas in Cadiz, will play a fundamental role. Upon completion, the Princess of Asturias will be named second midshipman. This Tuesday will be your first contact with the Naval School of Marínwhere he will begin his second year of military training on August 29.

The teachings that the midshipmen receive on board the training ship are technical knowledge, practice in the exercise of command, ethical values ​​and the ability to represent Spain. It should be noted that third-year students enter this course in their second semester while completing their studies at the Naval Military School, which in this time has polished certain aspects to ensure better teaching. Now, as the princess is about to enter, they are preparing for an exceptional situation, as her post at the School has been extended. The captain of the ship has been one of those in charge of designing the Princess’s study program in the Navy, and the heir to the throne will meet him on July 16th in her first contact with the ship when the midshipmen who have completed the training cruise are handed over their dispatches.

The director of the Naval Military School of Marín has spoken in an interview with The world of the princess’s entry. “I think it is necessary to explain that his training with the Navy in Marín is part of something broader: the military training of the Princess of Asturias. The first thing that has been necessary, therefore, is an effort of coordination between the other academies and the Naval School, so that there is a common thread and a certain coherence in the whole of the training,” he said.

Therefore, the curriculum that has been prepared is “a specific, intense and demanding plan” which aims to prepare Princess Leonor to “assume supreme command of the Armed Forces, as provided for in Article 62 of the Constitution. It will have scientific, technical, naval, military and physical components. But the core of the training, the essential part, will be training in values, the authentic axis around which everything else in the School revolves.”

The School, the daughter of the kings of Spain “will find a group of people who feel immediate affection and empathy for someone who has had to move from city to city and group of friends three times in three years.” Also “a group of sailors who facilitate the arrival at their new destination to a new colleague”comments the director.