The mayor of Zaragoza, the popular Natalia Chueca, has transferred this Friday to the Board of Spokespersons the proposal to grant the distinction of the title of Adoptive Daughter of Zaragoza to the Princess of Asturias, Mrs. Leonor de Borbón y Ortiz, so that it may be submitted to consideration in the plenary session that will be held on April 25.
According to the regulations, the purpose of this distinction is to recognize people who have stood out for their merits or qualities, especially in the cultural, scientific, social, artistic, political or economic fields, or for services provided for the benefit from the city.
In the case of being born in the municipality of Zaragoza, the decorated person obtains the title of Favorite Son and, if born outside, that of Adopted Son. This is the case of the princess or also of her father, King Felipe VI, who already received that title in 1986 when he was studying in the Aragonese capital.
In November of last year, with the favorable votes of PP and Vox, the name change of the current Zaragoza Auditorium to the Princesa Leonor Auditorium already went ahead. She “she is going to be the future queen of Spain. It seems to us the time, at her coming of age, to pay tribute to her by naming the most important cultural facility in the city after her,” Chueca said at the time.
As her father already did, last August the princess began the first of her three years of military training at the General Military Academy of Zaragoza, where she still has to finish the last quarter. At the end of May, she is scheduled to attend the Armed Forces Day held in Asturias.
