• Awards.The perfect Catalan Princess Leonor in her speech: "Catalonia will always occupy a special place in my heart"
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Just 10 minutes of intervention as heiress of the Crown, distributed between Oviedo and Barcelona. Four languages: Spanish, Catalan, English and Arabic. The institutional debut of Princess Leonor, her first two official speeches, have shown her mastery and handling of languages. A priority for the Kings, who since they were little, ruled that she and her sister, Infanta Sofía, received training in all the co-official languages ​​of the State: Catalan, Basque and Galician.

Felipe VI, in the ceremony of the Princess of Girona Awards, once again defined Catalonia as "plural". On several occasions during his reign he has described Spain as "diverse and plural nation", and he wants the heiress to the throne and his sister to participate in that plurality with the Sunday of co-official languages. Both understand and speak Catalan, Basque and Galician. In the Palau de Congresos de Cataluña, the general comment was the praise of Princess Leonor's perfect Catalan.

The claim is that, as the King does, every time he moves to these communities, Leonor develops part of his speech in the autonomous language. This Monday, at the Princess of Girona Awards, more than half of his intervention was in Catalan.

The Catalan of the heiress

"From Ben Petites, to the German Meva, the Infanta Sofia, I, my peers have always been part of Girona and Catalonia, always ambitiously affected .

Com Princesa de Girona, vull honor the Fundació com es mereix. I carry amb orgull el seu nom per tot Catalunya, for the rest of Spain and per tot el món. As long as Tothom knows that to take care of the young, of the seva formation, that tinguin more opportunitats, is to contribute to having a future millor per tots .

Graces to those who will donate suport in the Seva Creation; Thanks to tots els patrons, graces als who have dedicated and dedicated to the temples and efforts of the Princess of Girona Foundation every day. Gràcies pel vostre compromís amb els joves i amb una terra, Catalunya, which will always occupy a special lloc in the meu cor. Moltes congratulations for this first decade. Per molts anys. Moltes gràcies ".

But it also caused praise to launch himself to speak in Arabic. He did so to address one of the winners, lawyer and psychologist Maria Jammal, who has been awarded the FPdGi International Prize 2019 «for her excellent work as co-founder and executive director of an organization -Humanity Crew- that makes visible the problems of mental health suffered by refugees and creates solutions for them ». Jammal is from a Russian mother and an Israeli Arab father.

Both Leonor and Sofia are bilingual in English. The winners of the Princess of Asturias and Girona were congratulated in this language. They have been trained in it since childhood, both at home and at school. To strengthen its management, the last two summers, the Casa del Rey decided to spend the month of July in a camp in the US. Zarzuela did not provide the data of the specific site, but it was stated that the intention of the Kings is that in this summer stay their daughters would receive "complementary training to their schooling in Spain in an environment of cultural exchange with girls and boys of different nationalities" . "The objective is that this stay can bring them both new knowledge and experiences with activities according to their age."

Princess Leonor and Infanta Sofía attend the private school Santa María de los Rosales, where in addition to prioritizing teaching in English, the possibility of learning French, German and Chinese as a subject from 5th grade of Primary Education to Baccalaureate is offered. Leonor studies third of Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO). In addition to dealing with French, the sources consulted indicate that it is also immersed in learning Chinese.

The heiress to the throne is a great fan of ballet - in her first days of school year, in the month of September, it could be seen how a ballet shoe-shaped keychain hung from the zipper of her backpack - and plays the cello.

However, there are still pending subjects in Leonor's training. The next Government must decide, in consensus with the King's House, its academic instruction and whether it will receive military training. First, decide if, like your father, you take an academic course outside of Spain. Felipe VI carried out the studies equivalent to the Spanish COU in a Canadian private boarding school located 130 kilometers north of Toronto, in the province of Ontario: Lakefield School.

Military training is another important aspect. The Government of Mariano Rajoy, in the words of the Minister of Defense, Pedro Morenés, hinted that it would be: "He will receive his military training" so that "in his day, God willing, he will be chief of the Armed Forces as captain general of the same". Morenés recalled that "the Constitution itself states that the King of Spain is, as such, the supreme head of the Armed Forces."

Law 39/2007, of November 19, on the military career, in its second article, states: "The Prince of Asturias may develop the military career and have the military jobs that, by royal decree, determine the Government, which remains empowered to establish its own and differentiated regime taking into account the requirements of its high representation and its status as heir to the Crown of Spain. "

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