The Defense Minister, Margarita Robles, visited the facilities of the General Military Academy of Zaragoza this Friday to learn about the latest preparations for the incorporation of Princess Leonor on August 17 to begin her military training.
The heiress will have to join before ten in the morning next Thursday.
The general director of the center, Manuel Pérez López, has indicated that “everything is ready” and that the Princess of Asturias will have a specific study plan that will allow her to do “two courses in one”.
He explained that “the subjects have been condensed so that from her arrival until October 7, when she is expected to swear in the flag together with the rest of her classmates, the Princess will finish the first year. And from that date she will join the second year “.
He has assured that at the Military Academy “everything is ready” for both Leonor and the other 612 new cadets, including 140 women, to join as of next week.
The rest of the students, up to 2009, will start classes on September 1st.
The minister has visited the classroom, the dining room and other rooms in which the life of Princess Leonor will take place, and has indicated that she will arrive accompanied by her family “like the rest of the students”.
Robles has corroborated that “two courses are going to be adapted to one year, but we want to give maximum normality to the presence and training of the Princess. Therefore, our maximum desire is that her stay be on an equal footing with the rest of her companions”.
In his opinion, “it is very important that Her Royal Highness the Princess of Asturias, who is called to hold the Headquarters of the Armed Forces, knows the military career very closely.”
Robles has added that “there is great enthusiasm because it is very important that the Princess knows very closely” the military career and the armed forces, for which, she recalled, she will be the most responsible.
The minister stressed that it is a “very demanding training, but full of qualities”, such as leadership and values, the latter aspect for which the princess will have one day of class a week.
Likewise, he took the opportunity to dismiss the “magnificent” work that the Spanish Armed Forces are doing around the world and recalled that military training “is very demanding, but at the same time it imprints values ??of humanity and camaraderie that are very important”.
Leonor’s first contact with the Academy of Zaragoza took place on July 7, when she attended, together with the King and Queen of Spain, the delivery of dispatches to the new officers of the Army and the Civil Guard.
The Royal Family took advantage of the occasion to make a private visit to the facilities where the heir to the throne will reside and study during the next academic year, thus following in the footsteps of her father, Felipe VI.
The minister recalled that “when we met then, I saw the Princess with great enthusiasm and expectations. I’m sure she’s going to enjoy it a lot.”
Robles has also visited the 19 Ukrainian soldiers who are recovering from their war wounds at the Zaragoza Military Hospital, and with whom he has had the opportunity to chat about their evolution for a while.
Of the 64 combatants who have been treated in the Aragonese capital since May 2022, 45 have already returned to Ukraine and many have rejoined the fight.
