Felipe Juan Froilán de Todos los Santos de Marichalar y Borbón, Lord of Tejada (born 17 July 1998), widely known as Froilán, is the elder child and only son of Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo, and Jaime de Marichalar. He is the maternal-line grandson of King

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and Queen Sofía of Spain, and the nephew of King

Felipe VI Felipe VI (; Felipe Juan Pablo Alfonso de Todos los Santos de Borbón y Grecia; born 30 January 1968) is King of Spain. In accordance with the Spanish Constitution, as monarch, he is head of state and commander-in-chief of the Spanish Armed For ...

. 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 the

line of succession to the Spanish throne Succession to the Spanish throne follows male-preference cognatic primogeniture. A dynast who marries against the express prohibition of the monarch and the Cortes Generales, the legislative chamber of Spain, is excluded from the succession. Up ...

, after his cousins (King Felipe's daughters)

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, and

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and his mother, Elena. He has a sister two years younger, Victoria de Marichalar y Borbón.

Early life

Birth and christening

Felipe de Marichalar y Borbón was born on 17 July 1998 at Ruber International Hospital in Madrid. He was baptized on Sunday 4 October 1998 day of the feast of San Francisco de Asis and on the eve of San Froilán, patron of Lugo, the mass was celebrated in the audience hall of the Zarzuela Palace. The ceremony was officiated by Archbishop of Madrid. His godparents were his maternal grandfather,

Juan Carlos of Spain Juan Carlos I (; Juan Carlos Alfonso Víctor María de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias, born 5 January 1938) is a member of the Spanish royal family who reigned as King of Spain from 22 November 1975 until his abdication on 19 June 2014. In Sp ...

, and his paternal grandmother, Concepción Sáez de Tejada y Fernández de Boadilla, Dowager Countess of Ripalda (1929–2014).

Early life

Until the age of twelve, he studied at the Colegio San Patricio in

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, 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 at Cottesmore, a boarding prep school in

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, to return the following year, in 2011, to

Colegio Santa María del Pilar The Colegio Santa María del Pilar, known also as Colegio Santa María, is a Roman Catholic private primary, middle and high school founded by the Society of Mary in Madrid, Spain. The school campus is one of the largest in central Madrid and its ...

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 in Garray (

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). His father had to declare to the Civil Guard because Spanish law forbade the use of firearms by minors under the age of 14. The judge dismissed the case against Jaime de Marichalar, considering it not gross negligence but a small misdemeanor. At the beginning of summer 2014, he was admitted to the Sagrada Familia Episcopal College of

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, 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 the

Blue Ridge School Blue Ridge School (formerly The Blue Ridge Industrial School) is an independent, all-male boarding school for students grades 9-12 located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Saint George, Virginia, United States. Approximately 185 ...

college, in Saint George, Virginia in

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, Randolph-Macon Academy, in Front Royal, Virginia, and at the

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. The tuition, which for each course amounted to $45,000, was paid for by his maternal grandfather King

. 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 with

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. 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. In January 2023 it was announced that Felipe would be going to live in the

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with his grandfather,

. Froilán will work for the ADNOC oil company, owned by the Minister of Advanced Technology of the United Arab Emirates, Sultan Ahmed Al-Jaber.

Titles, styles, honours and arms

He is styled as

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Don Felipe Juan Froilán de Todos los Santos de Marichalar y Borbón,

Grandee Grandee (; , ) is an official royal and noble ranks, aristocratic title conferred on some Spanish nobility. Holders of this dignity enjoyed similar privileges to those of the peerage of France during the , though in neither country did they ha ...

of Spain and Caballero Divisero Hijodalgo of the Illustrious Solar de TejadaRoyal Decree 1368/1987, dated 6 November, regulating titles, forms of address and honours pertaining to the Royal Family and to the Regents
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(BOE)

References

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