Infanta Sofia moves away from her aunts and changes history with her training

a The heir to the Spanish throne has a younger sister and maintains an excellent relationship with her, while the current king has two older sisters from whom he has distanced himself in recent years.

This is the main difference between the previous generation and the present with regard to the children of the Kings of Spain, and is stimulated by the apparent approximation made by Kings Felipe VI and Letizia between their two daughters, which is immediately verified in their book. Academic training.

The current King of Spain had a different background than his sisters. He studied at Santa María de los Rosales College in Madrid, then traveled to Canada in 1984 where he attended Lakefield College, a boarding school. A year later, he began his three-year military training, after which he graduated in law from the Autonomous University of Madrid.

The sisters took a different path. Infantas Elena and Cristina attended another school, Santa María del Camino, and unlike their brother, did not study abroad during their school years, nor did they receive military training.

On the other hand, Infanta Sofía followed the same path as her sister: like Leonor (and her father), she also studied at Santa María de los Rosales College and is now at UWC Atlantic College, in Wales, where he will make her next two academic years. It remains to be seen if, like the Princess of Asturias, she will also receive military training.

If this happened, it would be the first time that the child had military training, because unlike heirs – who must have this training – in the case of infants the training is optional and so far only the Princes of Asturias have had military training. .

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