After tying the knot in 2002, the newly styled Princess Lalla Salma and her husband broke with longstanding Moroccan tradition that shuttered royal wives from public view.

She is a princess and mother who has challenged the regal status quo ever since she fell in love with a wealthy member of a royal family.

Mohammed VI and his wife – born Salma Bennani – have two children together: 14-year-old Moulay Hassan, the future king of Morocco, and Princess Lalla Khadija, eleven. Despite similar reports, her Wikipedia page still lists her as the "Princess Consort of Morocco" and as King Mohammed's wife. (It has been reported he once flew his Aston Martin from Rabat to London, and some mornings he has a dozen of his priciest vehicles driven past him so he can choose which one he wants for the day.) Le mystère se dissipe peu à peu.Parce que la princesse Lalla Salma, épouse du roi du Maroc, a disparu de la scène publique depuis 2017 sans que l’on sache pourquoi.

Instead, Lalla Salma took on a far more modern approach to life, working to prevent HIV/AIDS in Africa, founding her own cancer charity and becoming a goodwill ambassador for the World Health Organisation. She was awarded the Gold Medal of the World Health Organisation in 2017 and has worked with the prevention of HIV/AIDS in Africa.Her Royal Highness also holds foreign honours from Belgium, Senegal, and Spain.In July 2019, the King’s lawyer confirmed in Gala Magazine that Princess Lalla Salma and the King were divorced.Subscribe to our weekly newsletter and join our 4,280 subscribers to stay up to date on History of Royal Women's articles!Check your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription. Née dans une famille de la classe moyenne marocaine, la princesse a perdu sa mère à l’âge de trois ans puis a été élevée auprès de sa grand-mère. La vente n’a pas laissé de traces: elle s’est déroulée sans agences immobilières et de manière strictement confidentielle. Happy 40th Birthday to Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco (born Salma Bennani; 10 May 1978).

Pourquoi l’épouse du roi du Maroc a-t-elle disparu de la scène publique depuis 2017 ? Lalla Salma was the first to be acknowledged publicly and given a title.Salma Bennani was born on 10 May 1978 in Fes, Morocco in an upper-middle-class family to El Haj Abdelhamid Bennani (a schoolteacher) and Naïma Bensouda. When a Moroccan website ran a story that chided Lalla Salma, accusing her of having a "deceitful attitude" and "outsized ego", it was widely believed to have done so with the King's approval. Cette semaine, l’héritier accomplissait 15 ans et, elle, 40, mais cela ne l’a pas sortir de l’ostracisme. Despite being a highly popular figure in her home country and regularly travelling abroad, the last time she was seen in public was in late 2017. 5 Oct 2019, 12:15 Updated : 23 Oct 2019, 7:02 THE Moroccan king's wife Lalla Salma has been dubbed the "ghost princess" after she's barely been seen in public for two years.

Salma Bennani est en fait un ingénieur en informatique transformée en une princesse qui n’a jamais trouvé sa place dans les vieux engrenages de la monarchie marocaine. Think I'm talking about Meghan, Duchess of Sussex? One theory that has been rumoured is that the couple have split and are fighting over custody and that she was not allowed to travel with both of her children, though this was disproved when she was spotted with the young Prince and Princess in New York.“Waar is Lalla Salma?” In Marokko! Despite his feed being peppered with candid shots of him eating, working and of his children, Lalla Salma is nowhere to be seen. She is one of two daughters of Al-Haj Abdel Hamid Bennani, a school teacher, and his wife Naima Bensouda. According to reports, Mohammed's family were less-than-impressed by her far more liberal approach to royal life, including wearing pants in public and eschewing a headscarf in the Muslim country. She has one sister, Meryem.

Salma Bennani was born on 10 May 1978 in Fes, Morocco in an upper-middle-class family to El Haj Abdelhamid Bennani (a schoolteacher) and Naïma Bensouda. Was she living in exile in the United States?