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, 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
Madrid, 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
West Sussex, to return the following year, in 2011, to
Colegio 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 in
Garray (
Soria). 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. In January 2023 it was announced that Felipe would be going to live in the
United Arab Emirates with his grandfather,
Juan Carlos I. Froilán will work for the
ADNOC oil company, owned by the Minister of Advanced Technology of the United Arab Emirates,
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