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Leonor returns to the classroom as a princess among 4,000 new university students

From La Vanguardia · () Spanish

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  • Princess Leonor began a political science degree at Carlos III University of Madrid alongside about 4,000 new students.
  • She arrived alone with a discreet escort and was welcomed by university officials and applauded by onlookers at the Getafe campus.
  • Her first day marked a new stage in her education after five years in Wales and at military academies.

Princess Leonor arrived at Carlos III University of Madrid on Monday, joining about 4,000 new students and bringing unusual attention to the first day of classes.

She reached the Getafe campus at 8:45 a.m., 15 minutes before lessons began, wearing dark jeans, trainers, a white shirt and a black handbag. She walked calmly alongside other students and might have gone unnoticed without the gathered media.

Leonor arrived alone with a discreet escort, the same security detail that accompanied her during five years in Wales and at military academies. She is beginning a political science degree and is expected to spend the next four years at the university.

The university’s rector, Ángel Arias, Vice-Rector for Students Pilar Otero and the dean of the Faculty of Social and Legal Sciences, Antonio Descalzo, welcomed her at the Adolfo Posada building. People watched and took photographs from windows near the entrance, while about 50 accredited photographers, camera operators and journalists recorded the moment.

Her arrival had already drawn public attention. On the way to campus, she passed a bus shelter carrying a message from a well-known online graphic-design platform: “Welcome to university, Princess.” Her classmates greeted her arrival with applause and evident curiosity.

Welcome to university, Princess.

· Online graphic-design platformThe message appeared on a bus shelter near the university campus before Leonor’s arrival.
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Originally published by La Vanguardia in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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