| Felipe de Marichalar y Borbón | |
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| Grandee of Spain Lord of Tejada | |
_Presentaci%25C3%25B3n_de_los_carteles_de_la_feria_taurina_de_San_Isidro_2_(cropped).jpg) Felipe in 2019 | |
| Born | Felipe Juan Froilán de Todos los Santos de Marichalar y Borbón (1998-07-17)17 July 1998 (age 27) Ruber International Hospital,Madrid, Spain[1] |
| Father | Jaime de Marichalar, Lord of Tejada |
| Mother | Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo |
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Extended royal family Children of the lateDuchess of Badajoz:
The Duchess of Soria and Hernani
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Felipe Juan Froilán de Todos los Santos de Marichalar y Borbón, Lord of TejadaGE (born 17 July 1998), widely known asFroilán,[2] is the elder child and only son of InfantaElena, Duchess of Lugo, andJaime de Marichalar. He is the maternal-line grandson of KingJuan Carlos I and QueenSofía of Spain, and the nephew of KingFelipe VI. He is the paternal-line grandson of Amalio de Marichalar y Bruguera, VIII Count of Ripalda and Concepción Sáenz de Tejada, Lady of Tejada. He is fourth in theline of succession to the Spanish throne, after his cousins (King Felipe's daughters)Leonor, Princess of Asturias, andInfanta Sofía of Spain and his mother, Elena.
He has a sister two years younger,Victoria de Marichalar y Borbón.
Felipe de Marichalar y Borbón was born on 17 July 1998 at Ruber International Hospital in Madrid.[3]
He was baptized on Sunday 4 October 1998 day of the feast ofSan Francisco de Asis and on the eve of San Froilán, patron of Lugo, the mass was celebrated in the audience hall of theZarzuela Palace. The ceremony was officiated byArchbishop of Madrid. His godparents were his maternal grandfather,Juan Carlos of Spain, and his paternal grandmother, Concepción Sáez de Tejada y Fernández de Boadilla, Dowager Countess of Ripalda (1929–2014).[4]
Until the age of twelve, he studied at the Colegio San Patricio inMadrid, but due to his bad grades (although without repeating academic courses), his parents decided that he should attend a boarding school in England. Froilán took a course atCottesmore, a boarding prep school inWest Sussex, to return the following year, in 2011, toColegio Santa María del Pilar in Madrid, where he remained for three years. Two of these years were spent in secondary school (ESO); he had to repeat an academic course.
On 9 April 2012, Felipe de Marichalar accidentally shot himself in his right foot while he was on a farm of his father's family inGarray (Soria).[5] His father had to declare to theCivil Guard because Spanish law forbade the use of firearms by minors under the age of 14.[6] The judge dismissed the case against Jaime de Marichalar, considering it not gross negligence but a small misdemeanor.[6]
At the beginning of summer 2014, he was admitted to the Sagrada Familia Episcopal College ofSigüenza, from which he graduated from ESO the following year. In September 2015, he went to the United States, to complete his high school education in 2017 at theBlue Ridge School college, inSaint George, Virginia inGreene County, Virginia, Randolph-Macon Academy, in Front Royal, Virginia, and at theCulver Military Academy. The tuition, which for each course amounted to $45,000, was paid for by his maternal grandfather KingJuan Carlos I.
He then began his higher education studies, majoring in Business Administration and Management at the College for International Studies in Madrid, a Spanish Higher Education institution associated withEndicott College.
In 2022, he started being investigated by police in the wake of being involved in a brawl involving knives outside the Vandido nightclub in Madrid.[7] In January 2023 it was announced that Felipe would be going to live in theUnited Arab Emirates with his grandfather,Juan Carlos I.[8] Froilán will work for theADNOC oil company, owned by the Minister of Advanced Technology of the United Arab Emirates,Sultan Ahmed Al-Jaber.[9]
He is styled asThe Most ExcellentDon Felipe Juan Froilán de Todos los Santos de Marichalar y Borbón,Grandee of Spain and Caballero Divisero Hijodalgo of the Illustrious Solar de Tejada[10]
Felipe Juan Froilán de Todos los Santos, más conocido como Froilán
This is not the first time that Froilán, as he is widely known, has been involved in incidents in the nightlife scene
Felipe Juan Froilán de Marichalar y Borbón, más conocido como Froilán
Felipe de Marichalar y Borbón Cadet branch of theCapetian dynasty Born: 17 July 1998 | ||
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| Preceded by | Line of succession to the Spanish Throne 4th in line | Succeeded by |