Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco
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Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco (Arabic: الأميرة للا سلمى) is the wife of King Mohammed VI of Morocco and the first wife of a Moroccan ruler to have been publicly acknowledged and given a royal title.
She is styled as HRH The Princess Consort.
She was born Salma Bennani on May 10, 1978 in Fez, Morocco. Her father is a primary school teacher; her mother died when she was three years old. She was raised by her maternal grandmother.
She was educated in private and public schools in Rabat. Upon completing her primary education, she qualified for an honors program that was initiated by the Ministry of National Education, which resulted in her obtaining a baccalaureate in 1995 with excellent grades in mathematics and sciences at Lycée Hassan II. Following the successful completion of a preparatory course at Lycée Moulay Youssef, Salma graduated in 2000 from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et d'Analyse des Systèmes. She received a degree in computer science and was her class valedictorian. After graduation, she worked in Casablanca as an information services engineer at the ONA Group, the country's largest private holding company, which is controlled by the Moroccan royal family.
Salma Bennani married King Mohammed VI on March 21, 2002, at the royal palace in Rabat. They have two children, Crown Prince Moulay Hassan and Princess Lalla Khadija. [1]
Salma's interests and hobbies include her work to raise awareness of cancer, an illness that has touched her family, and her inauguration of the Moroccan Festival of Sacred Music. Her favourite clothing designers are Chanel and Valentino. In the field of sports, Salma has been seen learning to ski with her husband in Switzerland.
Shortly after her marriage, the French magazine Paris Match printed an article on the new Princess that included details about her life in the palace. It mentioned that she likes walking barefoot inside her house, that her favourite food is Moroccan stew, and that she sometimes shares her meal with the female servants. The article annoyed the Moroccan Royal Family, and the director of the House, Abdelhak El Mrini, wrote a letter to the director of the publication complaining that it had violated the Princess' privacy[citation needed].
