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This is the moment a future queen leaps from a military transport plane into the darkness during a high-risk night parachute jump.
The footage was obtained from the Spanish Royal Household and shows the training in the town of Alcantarilla, in the Spanish region of Murcia, in May.
The video shows Princess Leonor, the Princess of Asturias and heir to Spain's throne, carrying out equipment checks before boarding a CASA C-212 Aviocar transport aircraft.
She is seen following instructions from senior officers as she prepares to jump alongside fellow cadets.
She has reportedly become the first member of Spain's royal family to train as a paratrooper. King Felipe VI, her father, and Juan Carlos I, her grandfather, never took on such training while they served, according to reports.
Princess Leonor finished the Basic Parachuting Course at the Mendez Parada Military Parachuting School, part of her training at the General Air and Space Academy (AGA) in San Javier.
She qualified to carry out automatic, static-line jumps alongside nearly 50 classmates, the same standard required throughout Spain's armed forces.
The training included a night-time descent from above 400 metres (1,300 feet), among the riskiest stages of her instruction.
The Spanish Royal Household said in a statement on 2nd June: "The Princess of Asturias has completed the Basic Parachuting Course at the Mendez Parada Military Parachuting School, at the Alcantarilla Air Base (Murcia).
"Following the training, in May she made her first parachute jump in automatic mode, as well as subsequent ones, one of them at night."
Having passed, she was awarded a diploma along with the Rokiski, a badge showing outstretched wings around a parachute.
Her time in uniform will end within weeks, and in September she is due to start a Political Science degree at Madrid's Carlos III University.
(Joe Golder/Clipzilla/NX)
Byline Journalist: Joseph Golder
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Geography: Spain
Subject: K1, VP, Military, Royalty
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