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Princess Leonor will begin her military training in September with her admission to the

General Military Academy

of the Army, in Zaragoza.

The Heiress follows in the footsteps of her father and will receive training in the

three Armies,

in a plan that the Royal House and the Government have worked on jointly for months.

It was the Defense Minister, Margarita Robles, who detailed the news in the conference after the Council of Ministers, where the Royal Decree regulating her passage through the Academies was ratified.

Article 2 of the

Military Career Law

provides that "the Prince of Asturias may carry out a military career and have the military jobs that, by royal decree, the Government determines, which is empowered to establish its own and differentiated regime taking into account the demands of its high representation and its status as heir to the Crown of Spain.

To design the training plan for the King's eldest daughter, Zarzuela has been inspired by the model of her father, Felipe VI, and Doña Leonor will take a

course for each army

, to learn the basics of all three.

The Princess will start with the terrestrial branch, one of the oldest in the world, which has been in service since the 15th century.

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Secret plan for Princess Leonor in the crucial year: military training, oath of the Constitution and university

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Secret plan for Princess Leonor in the crucial year: military training, oath of the Constitution and university

Doña Leonor will finish school on May 20, the last school day of the UWC Atlantic College of Wales calendar, where she has completed the international baccalaureate modality.

From that moment until September she will have free time, when she will enter the Zaragoza Academy, becoming a soldier of the LXXXIII promotion.

Her grandfather, King Juan Carlos I belongs to the XIV and her father studied the Infantry cycle with the XLIV promotion.

In the following years, the heiress will pass through the

Military Naval School

, located in the Pontevedra town of Marín since 1943, and through the

General Air Academy,

in San Javier.

Precisely in the academy the debut

of the now Princess and her sister

took place in a public act.

It was in May 2014, a month before the abdication of her grandfather, to participate in the events of the 25th anniversary of the XLI promotion, to which Don Felipe belongs.

Zarzuela and the Government have closed the plan for the Princess to pass through the Academies taking into account the seniority of each army, but also

a key moment

in the life of the midshipmen who at the end of the course participate in a journey on the Juan Sebastián Elcano where They touch multiple ports.

The presence of the Princess in the boat conditions the navigation program and the ports through which to pass, because if the Heiress follows in the footsteps of her father, she will have institutional commitments at each mooring.

Women, in minority

When Princess Leonor comes to the throne, she will make history by becoming

the first female Captain General

of the three Spanish Armies.

It is the rank that corresponds to the Head of State according to the Military Career Law of 2007. But it will also make a place for itself in a demanding world where the cut-off grade to access through the EBAU exceeds 12.

According to the latest report on the evolution of men and women in the Armed Forces, carried out by the Military Observatory for equality between men and women of the Ministry of Defence, women represent barely 12.9% of

the

108,000 members of the Armed Forces. Armed Forces, being more present in the Common Corps (35%), the Navy (13.7), the Air (14.2) and Land (11.5). However, the trend increases every year since in 1994 Women were incorporated into the three Armies, thus, the average growth is one tenth a year.

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