Leonor, the teenage princess of Spain, is shipping out.
The soon-to-be high school grad is set to spend a year at the Army Military Academy in Zaragoza. She will then attend naval school, where she’ll sail the famed training tall ship Juan Sebastián Elcano, before joining the Spanish Air Force Academy.
“As in all parliamentary monarchies, (the heir) has to have a military background and a military career,” defense minister Margarita Robles said. “In due course, the commander-in-chief of the armed forces will be a woman, and in recent years we have been making a very important effort to incorporate women into the armed forces.”
