Leonor, the king's daughter, will finish her studies at the military academy in June and will now study political science. However, as if that might not be enough, she will also have to take a reinforcement course in Constitution.
It is an ideal career for someone who will not have to deal with politics at all. There are other careers, like law with a degree in criminology, which would not have been suitable, because for a queen they would have remained, always, on a theoretical level. There are others, like environmental sciences, which would have been somewhat suitable, but not entirely, because some would have called her woke. Teaching could not be. The Infanta Elena did it, it seems, and it has already become associated. Fine arts would have been good, but then there would have been those who would have called her not very feminist, because they would have considered – wrongly – that queens cannot dedicate themselves to painting. Music would also have been suitable, but it is discarded for the same reason.
A vocational training degree could not be either. She could not do carpentry, nor be a bricklayer or a hairdresser. These are still considered, unfortunately, commoner's trades. She could not pursue her mother's career, precisely because the royal family would not want many journalists. Everyone would have pounced on her; her mother, especially. I think they always pounce on this girl's mother a lot, calling her "controlling" and – that's the word – "dominant". Of course she is. She could not be a sommelier, nor a dancer, nor an actress, nor a film director, nor an enologist, nor a model, nor, in short, a computer scientist or a broker or a herbalist or, of course, a writer.
She has a guaranteed job, and that is already much more than we would want for our children, who are now starting their working lives. Many of these children of ours have not been able to choose their dream career because they did not reach the required grades. Others have. In any case, however, they have all chosen, fought to get in, and some have cried for not being able to get in. They have retreated, looked for a new path, changed plans. This girl, who has everything, has not had the right to dream.
