Princess Leonor of Spain.Photo: PPE/SIPA/Shutterstock
Princess Leonorof Spain is flying solo!
The 15-year-old heir to the Spanish throne helped celebrate the 30th anniversary of theInstituto Cervantesin Madrid on Wednesday.
In her first solo royal outing, the future Queen of Spain deposited the same copy of the Spanish Constitution she read aloud duringher first public addresstwo years ago on her 13th birthday — also at the Cervantes Institute.
The document will now rest inside a secure facility at the Institute alongside 60 priceless Spanish cultural items, including a copy of the classic novelDon Quixote de la Mancha, which Leonor and her younger sister Princess Sofia, 13, read live on social media to celebrate Book Day in April 2020.
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“Her Royal Highness the Princess of Asturias, on the occasion of her visit to the Cervantes Institute on the occasion of its 30th anniversary, deposited two copies of the Spanish Constitution and Don Quixote de la Mancha in the Box Of letters. March 24, 2021,” read the inscription on the safety deposit box.
The teen princess then moved on to the main hall where she was presented with three books in the co-official languages of Spain and took part in a group photograph.
Leonor’s solo outing is the latest milestone in her royal life. On Feb. 11, it was announced that the daughter ofKing Felipe VIandQueen Letiziawill join UWC Atlantic College in Wales starting in September, following in the royal footsteps ofKing Willem-Alexanderof the Netherlands, Princess Raiyah of Jordan, and Crown Princess Elisabeth of Belgium, whostarted at the collegein 2018.
Princess Leonor of Spain.Ballesteros/POOL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
“Princess Leonor will reside, like the rest of the students, in the boarding school that the UWC Atlantic College has established within its campus,” the statement continued. “(She) will make this period of her education compatible with the progressive development of her institutional commitments in Spain.”
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Last September, both Leonor and her sister Sofiahad to quarantineafter a classmate at their school tested positive forcoronavirus. Both of their results came back negative.
source: people.com
