Robles visits the Military Academy of Zaragoza with a view to the entrance of Princess Leonor

The Defense Minister, Margarita Robles, visited the General Military Academy of Zaragoza (AGM) this Friday to review and update the admission process for Princess Leonor, scheduled for August 17, and to verify that everything is ready for her to the future queen shares the training on an equal footing with the rest of her companions.

Robles has arrived at the AGM facilities after 2 in the afternoon and has also visited the Military Defense Hospital in the Aragonese capital, in order to see the facilities and areas where the princess will carry out the training.

The director of the institution, Manuel Pérez López, has been in charge of explaining to the minister the study plans taught by the General Military Academy, the weekly calendar and the most significant activities that the princess will carry out during the year of training in the Army of Earth.

For this, the AGM has had to prepare a specific study plan, since Doña Leonor will have to take two courses in one. The first from next September 17 and until the flag pledge on October 7, when it will go to second, as Pérez López informed the minister in front of the media.

Robles has shown his interest in specific aspects of his training and, after attending to the explanations, has transferred to the media the “great value of the work” carried out by the academic institution, which next year will receive 612 new students.

“There is great enthusiasm because it is very important that the princess knows very closely” the military career and the armed forces, of which, she recalled, she will be the most responsible.

Robles has 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.

The minister also recalled that on July 7, during the delivery of dispatches, the princess was seen with “great spirit” and awaits her entry “with enthusiasm and expectations”, in addition to the fact that “she will enjoy it very much”.

Leonor de Borbón, who will turn 18 on October 31, will begin her higher education after completing her two baccalaureate courses on May 20 at the UWC Atlantic College in Wales (United Kingdom)..

After his stay in the Army, he will join the Naval School of Marín, in Pontevedra, for the second year, and will embark as a midshipman on the training ship Juan Sebastián Elcano.

The training will be completed at the General Air and Space Academy in San Javier (Murcia), where it is expected that he will learn to fly combat aircraft, as his father did..

Having completed his time at the three academies, he will be number one in the promotion of the 2026/27 academic year with the job of lieutenant, in Land and Air, and naval lieutenant, in the Navy, and he will rise as his classmates do. baking.

After passing through the AGM, the minister plans to visit the detachment of Group 43 at the Zaragoza air base, where the troops that the Army has deployed in different territories are located to assist in the event of fires.