Princess Leonor will be present at the reception that the Kings offer each year at the Royal Palace on the occasion of the celebrations of October 12 and will also be present on the platform, along with her parents, but she will not participate in the parade that will previously take place. on Paseo de la Castellana, in Madrid. The heir who will swear the flag this Saturday in Zaragoza and who on October 31, upon reaching the age of majority, will swear in the Constitution in Congress before the Cortes Generales, adds with that presence one more act in a month of October in which He will also chair, between the 19th and the 21st in Oviedo, the events called for the Princess of Asturias awards.
The reception at the Royal Palace is attended by the full Government (on this occasion in office), the high institutions of the State and representatives of the political, economic and social class; a total of one thousand people whom the Kings, this time for the first time, the Princess, will greet in the Throne Room, and later share a cocktail spread throughout the different rooms and galleries of the building.
Leonor de Borbón, who is currently completing her first period of military training at the Zaragoza Academy, will travel to Madrid to attend the national holiday events with the Kings. It will be the first time that she is at the Royal Palace reception, but not in the gallery since, since the proclamation of the King, in 2014, she and her sister, Sofía, have been in the gallery. Leonor was absent in 2021 and 2022 due to her being in Wales studying the International Baccalaureate at Atlantic College, which is why Infanta Sofía will be absent this year. The youngest daughter of the Kings will also be absent from the Oviedo awards, but she will attend the swearing-in of her sister in the Cortes since that day she will coincide with the autumn vacation period at her Welsh school.
This Friday, and as a prior act to the flag oath, Princess Leonor, along with the rest of the cadets of the Military Academy, will participate in the traditional floral offering to the Virgin of Pilar in Zaragoza. It is a voluntary act to which the ladies and gentlemen cadets go to the Basilica of Pilar, in Zaragoza, with the gala uniform to ask for protection from the virgin. Before entering the temple, the young people make a military parade in the Plaza del Pilar and later make a floral offering.
