Every family has a black sheep and none The Royal Family not subject to this unwritten rule. We saw it in London with Harry, we have confirmation in Madrid with Felipe Juan Froilan, eldest son of Infanta Helena of Bourbon, sister of King Felipe. Known simply as Froilan in the tabloid press, the twenty-four-year-old boy is fourth in the line of succession, after his two cousins, Leonor, heir to the throne, and Sophia, and his mother Helena. Spanish royalty, he has always been a cranky, unpredictable and constantly over-the-top irascible man who gave Felipe more than one reason to complain about this kinship.
If Harry’s past, written in black and white in a biography Fire, was marked by more than youthful intemperance – such as when he wore the famous Nazi uniform during a carnival party or when he was caught naked in a Las Vegas club, not to mention drug use – Froilan’s events are no less surprising. But let’s go in order. The boy was born on July 17, 1998 and is the only son of Helena of Bourbon and her ex-husband Jaime de Marichalar, two years older than her sister Victoria, the future fashion icon of the Spanish royal family. At home, everyone remembers him as a violent and violent child who when he was only six years old, during his uncle Felipe’s marriage to Letizia Ortz, he kicked his cousin Victoria López Quesada.. The gesture is a harbinger of who the boy will become.
Until the age of twelve, he studied at the Colegio San Patricio in Madrid, but due to poor academic performance, his parents sent him to England, to Cottesmore, a boarding school in West Sussex. He returned to Spain the following year and was enrolled at the Colegio Santa María del Pilar in Madrid where he remained for three years, two of which were spent repeating the class. On April 9, 2012, he had a hunting accident: while on his father’s family farm in Garrai, Soria, he accidentally shot himself in the right foot.. A father is being called to court to explain why his son was holding a rifle, because in Spain the law prohibits the use of firearms by minors under the age of 14. The case is eventually closed, not without damaging the family’s image. Entering the Episcopal College of the Sagrada Familia in Sigüenza in 2014, from which he graduated the following year, seems to have brought him condemnation. In September 2015, he completed his U.S. training at the Blue Ridge School College in St. George, Virginia and the Culver Military Academy. Returning to Spain, he majored in Business Administration and Management at the College of International Studies in Madrid.
However, in 2022, he begins to have legal troubles.. Claiming to skip the line in the men’s room with the characteristic phrase “You don’t know who I am” to the club’s customers, he gets punched in the face. And in December last year, the most serious episode: leaving the capital’s disco Vandido, he is involved in an armed fight in which one of his friends is wounded. An episode for which he faces one year and three months in prison. It is the straw that overflows the vase and convinces his mother to send him to live with his grandfather Juan Carlos in Abu Dhabi. Here he works for the oil company Adnoc, owned by UAE Minister of Advanced Technology Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber. Just as Harry found reason to believe and commit himself in the army stationed in Afghanistan, so Froilan will be able to start his life anew in the United Arab Emirates. Perhaps it is the fate of the rebellious princes to find redemption in a foreign land.
Source: Elle