Spain's Princess Leonor completed her three-year military training on Friday at the Air and Space Academy in San Javier, Murcia, qualifying as a paratrooper and receiving one of the country's highest military honours from her father, King Felipe VI.
The 20-year-old heir to the throne was awarded the Grand Cross of Aeronautical Merit with White Distinction and received her officer's commission alongside more than 100 graduates. The news came after Leonor spent three academic years moving through Spain's army, navy and air force training systems, an unusually public preparation for the woman expected to become the country's first reigning queen in nearly 150 years.
