With the graduation of this Saturday, May 24, the entire royal family already enters the adult stage. The second daughter of the Kings has collected its International Baccalaureate diploma in the (United Kingdom), an institution in which she entered two years ago and also studied her old sister ,. The Kings, Felipe VI and Letizia Ortiz, who did not travel to Wales a month ago, have attended this time to the closing ceremony of this school stage to support, accompany and celebrate with their daughter Sofía.
As you take the stage, to collect her study certificate, the UWC College tutor has said: “Sofia’s journey has been marked by her perseverance and remarkable personal growth, and has gone from being an empathic listening and affectionate by nature to being an accredited support partner. True friend in difficult times, we will miss the warmth and the vibrant spirit of Sofia.”
Like, he has disseminated images in which the Bourbon Ortiz family is seen. This time, however, without the heiress Leonor, because he is from as part of his formation with the Navy. However, for his birthday and graduation.
The princess continues in Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), where she fell last Monday and from where – a National Radio Program of Spain (RNE) that meets this 2025 four decades. His next stop will be New York, where he is expected to arrive on June 5. There will end the journey and take a flight back to Spain to embark for a month in a modern frigate in waters near the peninsula. Although perhaps Princess Leonor has been able to see her sister collect her graduate diploma, because the UWC has broadcast the act by YouTube, something logical taking into account that she houses students from numerous nationalities.
Graduation, known at school as Leavers celebration (The celebration of those who end the studies), took place around 14.30 (Peninsular Spain schedule) with the participation of students and their relatives of this school, whose emblem is the ST Castle Donat’s, from the 12th century, located 35 kilometers from Cardiff and about 270 in London. As they did with Princess Leonor, the Kings have assumed the cost of the Infanta stay in the boarding school of Wales, which amounts to 74,000 pounds (about 82,000 euros) for the two courses.
The Infanta has received her graduate diploma in International Baccalaureate from Naheed Bardai, director of the UWC College of Wales and Jill Longson, president of the Governing Committee of the UWC Atlantic College and former student of 1981.
In total, 195 students have graduated this Saturday; 61 men and 134 women; With 29 different languages (88 of them do not have English as the first language or native language; a dozen of them have Spanish as a native language), of 58 different nationalities. “Graduates, this is a day of celebration and could not be more proud of the remarkable group of adults in which they have become. By embarking on the next chapter, they are encouraged to carry out the values and lessons that have formed them in UWC Atlantic. Accept the future challenges with the same resilience and enthusiasm that has defined their time here. They recognize that their education is not only a personal achieve Contributing to a more compassionate and fair world, ”Naheed Bardai, director of the UWC Atlantic, told them during his speech.
Today’s is a day that will mark a turn in education until now identical of the two daughters of the kings. After graduating in Wales, Princess Leonor began her military instruction, starting with the Army (Zaragoza), continuing with the Navy (Marín) and ending in the Air and Space Army, where she will enter next August at the San Javier Academy (Region of Murcia). However, Infanta Sofia, not being called to be the future head of the State – and, therefore, not the Armed Forces – does not have that obligation – and last April too -, which suggests that he will continue his studies by initiating his stage at the University.
Sources from La Zarzuela say that it is still not clear where to study, since it has made several requests in centers both in Spain and abroad. And, although he is receiving answers, he still has time to think about his final decision. Another possibility, although every time it sounds with less force, is to do what is called gap year. A kind of sabbatical year quite widespread among young Europeans (especially British) that take the opportunity to travel or volunteer on other continents. His cousin Irene Urdangarin, for example, chose this path.
It is still about to see what the role that I play as an active member of the Royal House will play, but after fulfilling the age of majority on April 29, it is expected to start having more and more prominence. So far. The Infanta was present at photography awards that bore her name and were organized by National Heritage.
Felipe VI already anticipated last year that the Infanta has to represent the crown: “The continuity (of the monarchy) is today represented, logically, by the princess of Asturias, but also, we must not forget, with the company of her sister, the infanta Sofia, who has to help a lot,” said the head of state in an act in Madrid.
The last time the Infanta Sofia was seen in Spain was during the last Christmas, when she accompanied her parents and the princess in the surprise visit to Catarroja, one of the localities most affected by the Dana, on December 22. Since then, nothing. of the Infanta taken during the Easter holidays.
