Lalla Salma

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Princess Lalla Salma (2012)

Princess Lalla Salma (born May 10, 1978 in Fès , Morocco ; real name is Salma Bennani  /سلمى بناني / Salmā Binnānī ) is the wife of the Moroccan King Mohammed VI. and First Lady of the Kingdom of Morocco.

Life

Salma Bennani, born on May 10, 1978 in Fez, Morocco, is the daughter of the teacher Abdelhamid Bennani, who taught at the École normal supérieure in Fez, and his wife Naïma Bensouda, who died three years after the birth of their daughter. She has an older sister and three half-sisters from her father's second marriage. After the death of her mother, Bennani grew up as a half-orphan with her sister Meryem (who became a doctor) with her maternal grandmother, Fatma Abdellaoui Maâne, in Rabat . After attending a private school, she completed an apprenticeship as a qualified engineer in technical computer science at the École nationale supérieure d'informatique et d'analysis des systèmes (ENSIAS) in Rabat and then worked in Fes as a computer scientist for a company that in part belonged to the Moroccan royal family.

In October 2001 she became engaged to the Moroccan King Mohammed VI., Whom she had met for the first time in 1993, and married him on March 21, 2002. On the occasion of the marriage she was raised by her husband to the status of a princess , which is in the The history of Morocco is a unique occurrence and has been called Lalla Salma ever since . She is the mother of two children. Her son Moulay Hassan , the Moroccan Crown Prince , was born on May 8, 2003 , and their daughter, Princess Lalla Khadija, was born on February 28, 2007 .

In addition to representative tasks in public, the princess was also committed to women's rights in Morocco. At the 34th General Assembly of UNESCO in Paris on October 29, 2007, she gave a speech on the subject of equality. She is president of her founded Foundation et Fondation Lalla Salma Prévention Traitemant of Cancers , which campaigns for cancer treatment and prevention.

In 2018, various print media across Europe, including the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , reported that the princess had completely withdrawn from the public at the end of 2017 and that there was speculation about a separation or an already completed divorce of the royal couple. However, there are no official statements by the royal family on this. In the 2017 press freedom list published by Reporters Without Borders , Morocco was ranked 133rd out of 180 countries.

During 2019, Lalla Salma was seen by her children several times, both in Morocco and abroad. However, there are no joint appearances or pictures showing her at her husband's side.

Web links

Commons : Lalla Salma  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Le mystère Lalla Salma. Jeune Afrique, May 12, 2003, accessed on August 24, 2019 (French).
  2. ↑ In Royal Circles. In: cbsnews.com. October 29, 2007, accessed August 24, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Lalla Salma Foundation. Fondation Lalla Salma, accessed on August 24, 2019 (French).
  4. ↑ Hans-Christian Rössler: Where is Princess Salma? In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . April 2, 2018 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Ranking list of press freedom. Reporters Without Borders, accessed August 13, 2017 .
  6. ^ Morocco - Lalla Salma of Morocco presumably in the USA. Maghreb Post, September 21, 2019, accessed July 9, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Lalla Salma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bennani, Salma (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Wife of the Moroccan King Mohammed VI.
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Fez