Just a few weeks before completing her training at the San Javier General Air Academy, Princess Leonor appeared this weekend at Barnuevo Beach in Santiago de la Ribera to participate, as an ensign, in the 25th edition of the inter-university canoeing regatta.
Each year, the event brings together students from various universities, as well as students from the academy itself, and Leonor was paddling a canoe in the mixed category with her team.
The finals kicked off with teams from the University of Murcia, the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, UCAM, and Rey Juan Carlos University also competing.
Princess Leonor competed as just another team member, but her presence did not go unnoticed by those who came to the beach, as the videos recorded by the newspaper La Verdad de Murcia make quite clear.
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen her in this kind of setting. Last year, she took part in the Inter-Academy Championship in disciplines such as fencing, and in all of her sporting appearances, she shows the same attitude: focused, committed, and without any grandstanding.
Canoeing is not sailing, which is the more prominent sport in the family tradition, but the Bourbons’ connection to the sea goes back a long way, and Leonor seems to have inherited it naturally.
Now comes the final stretch. After the Easter break, she returned to the academy to tackle the final weeks of exams and drills before receiving her commission in July, at a ceremony to be presided over by King Felipe VI.
After that, college appears to be the next step, a decision that the Royal Family plans to announce shortly.
In that sense, the regatta on the Mar Menor was one of the final chapters of this stage before the next one begins.
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