After the last year of training as part of the 78th class of the General Academy of Air and Space (AGA) ——, Leonor de Borbón now enjoys some leisure time. Since last Sunday, June 14, and until next Friday, the 19th, the princess has been on the island of Gran Canaria with her classmates. This Tuesday, June 16, the heir to the Crown and the rest of the students have arrived at the municipality of Teror, where they have been received by the authorities, in what is already part of a tradition by which the different promotions of the military academy visit this Canarian town as an end-of-year trip.
The town’s City Council has reported on this visit in a statement, which specifies that the princess has traveled there discreetly, avoiding any official representation of the Royal House and participating as another ensign of the promotion. Composed of 72 students (57 men and 15 women) and several teachers under the command of Colonel Ajenjo, the group has been received by the mayor José Agustín Arencibia, who has been accompanied by the first deputy mayor, Sergio Nuez, the parish priest of the Basilica of Teror – where the group has been photographed – Jorge Martín de la Coba, and other municipal representatives.
During the day, Leonor de Borbón and her colleagues from the military academy took a guided tour around the temple, organized by the Teror Tourist Information Office. They have also been able to admire the image of the Virgen del Pino up close, in addition to taking a guided tour of the historic center.
Leonor de Borbón’s first visit to Gran Canaria was in January 2025, during her military training, on the occasion of her stopover in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria with the rest of the midshipmen before heading to Brazil.
This end-of-year trip comes after an intense month of May for the princess, who recently became the after overcoming the last of the challenges of her military training, the Basic Parachuting Course at the Méndez Parada Military Parachuting School, located at the Alcantarilla Air Base (Region of Murcia), as a complement to her training at AGA. Later, at the beginning of June, he received , where he has just completed his military training at the General Air Academy. A few days later, they attended the Bad Bunny concert after attending the massive mass celebrated by Pope Leo XIV in the Plaza de Cibeles during his visit to Madrid.
After completing her military training, the princess will begin Political Sciences at the Carlos III University of Madrid next September. The heir to the Crown will study a four-year degree at the headquarters of the public university in Getafe, which has among its professors a former Madrid president of the PP and a founder of Podemos. The agenda will include political, legal, economic and sociological topics that should help her to exercise her responsibilities as head of state in the future.
The Kings had previously shown their willingness for him to study in Spain – after, like his younger sister, Infanta Sofía, who moves to Paris in September to continue her studies – and for him to study at a public university, like his father Felipe VI, who graduated in Law from the Autonomous University of Madrid, becoming the first king of Spain with a university degree.
