The Princess Eleanor is located nowhere near embark on the Juan Sebastián Elcano, the training ship on which he will enroll starting in January after his stay at the Marín Naval Military School ends this December, in Pontevedrato.
It is also the same ship where his father embarked in 1987 and now the Ministry of Defense has shared some images of one of the most prominent spaces on the ship, one that precisely It has a specific place with details of the Royal Familywho has always been very involved with this ship. Thus, Leonor will be the fifth generation of her family to set sail on it.
Specifically, it will be on January 11 when it sets sail on a long journey that will last six months and that will include the Canary Islands, Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Panama, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, the United States and will return to Spain, where it will do one plow in Gijón and another in Ferrol.
As they have shown from Defensa, Juan Sebastián Elcano has a Commander’s Chamber which is now the workplace of Navío Capital Luis Carreras Presas do Campowho entered the Navy in 1992 and in July 2023 was promoted to Captain, thus taking command of the ship.
Their workplace has a group of blue chairs and sofas that were upholstered in 2017, although throughout history they have gone through other colors such as yellow, green, cream, green or burgundy. Furthermore, the cabin It has a flag of Spain as the main protagonistsince it is arranged in the center of the room.
A great area of memories
Likewise, the cabin has an area dedicated to the Royal Family with objects of great value and very significant. like different photographs of members of the Royal Family. Among them, there is one dedicated by the Kings, Philip and Letiziawhich dates back to 2006, when they were still princes. Likewise, there is another from 1987 by Juan de Borbón, the King Juan Carlos I and the then Prince of Asturias in that same Commander’s Chamber
The ship has other valuable objects such as the Book of Honor or chess pieces which was given by the former president of Peru, Fernando Belaunde Terry, during a ship stopover in his country. Likewise, the ship has its own miniature replicaa gift from the former president of Chile, Salvador Allende, which he granted in the same way during a stopover in Valparaíso in 1973.