MADRID (Reuters) - Princess Leonor, 17 and the heir presumptive to the Spanish throne, will undergo three years of military training starting in Augus.
MADRID (Reuters) - Princess Leonor, 17 and the heir presumptive to the Spanish throne, will undergo three years of military training starting in Augus.
MADRID (Reuters) - Princess Leonor, 17 and the heir presumptive to the Spanish throne, will undergo three years of military training starting in Augus.
MADRID (Reuters) - Princess Leonor, 17 and the heir presumptive to the Spanish throne, will undergo three years of military training starting in August, Defence Minister Margarita Robles said on Tuesday. The Spanish monarchy is struggling to repair its image after a series of scandals over the past decade, mainly linked to the former king Juan Carlos who abdicated in 2014 in favour of his son, King Felipe. As in all parliamentary monarchies (the heir) has to have a military background and a military career, Robles said after a cabinet meeting. Felipe s eldest daughter Leonor, who will finish her two-year high school course at UWC Atlantic College in Wales in a few months, turns 18 in October. She is first in the line of succession, unless a male heir is born, followed by her sister Sofia. In due course, the commander-in-chief of the armed forces will be a woman, and in recent years we have been making a very important effort to incorporate women into the armed forces, Robles said. The
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