Overview

• On July 14 in Santiago, Leonor received the Medalla de Oro de Galicia at the Pazo de Raxoi, delivering part of her speech in Galician to express her bond with the region.
• Goretti Sanmartín, the BNG mayor of Santiago, did not attend the medal ceremony to protest awarding the heir to the throne.
• Later that day in Marín, the city council named Leonor an Hija Adoptiva, repeating the honor first granted to King Felipe VI after his own naval formation.
• These distinctions mark the culmination of her six-month instruction cruise aboard the Juan Sebastián de Elcano, which visited ports across the Americas.
• She is set to be commissioned as alférez de fragata by King Felipe VI on July 16 and will begin her Air Force academy studies in San Javier this September.