The enigmatic story of Lalla Salma and Mohamed VI: love at first sight, 16 years of marriage and a divorce with many unknowns #farokani #rii #ancientworld #senser #rameses2

Lalla Salma and Mohamed VI got married in 2002 and she began a new stage for Moroccan royalty. She was a woman with studies, work and reddish hair that she proudly showed (and without any veil).

The mysterious love story between Lalla Salma and Mohamed VI leaves doubts, doubts and more doubts in the air. The first and most shocking: where is the woman who married the king of Morocco? Why has the mother of the heir, Moulay el Hassan, disappeared from the scene? The only thing that is clear is that her marriage lasted 16 years, long enough for the princess to start her own change of traditions, and it ended with many unknowns.

Today marks the 21st anniversary of the appointed day: the religious celebration of the wedding of the kings of Morocco in the royal palace of Rabat. It was an intimate act, with little echo in the media. The party was held a posteriori, from April 12. Known as el-Arsse, it lasted several days, it was in Marrakech and many foreign dignitaries were invited.

As announced in a statement, the event would be "in accordance with the ancestral traditions of the royal family and the authenticity of its customs rooted in history, which have consecrated the symbiosis between the illustrious Sherifian Alawite family and the different categories of the Moroccan people." For the country, this way of proceeding with a first intimate commitment indicated something very concrete and different from what the royals defended: a step towards modernity .

In short, Mohammed VI , 38, was engaged to Salma Bennani , 24. The images of that unknown young woman appeared for the first time, the daughter of a professor from Fez and educated in a family with enormous purchasing power. From there, they began a relationship that ended in 2018 and was discovered (more or less and tangentially) through another official statement.

How Lalla Salma and Mohamed VI met

From the palace it was confessed that everything had arisen as love at first sight. They met at a private party , according to sources. Later they had shared several trips abroad. In one of them, they were walking through Rome and inspired by the beauty of the city and love, Mohamed decided to buy her an engagement ring.

He had previously been married to someone even more anonymous, a woman named Amina. They got married the same night his father died. So, he didn't know his full name or anything about his family (later either). The press described that the only clear thing is that he was of Moroccan origin (in the ancestry of the wife there can be no foreign blood), and some sources claimed that he was from a Berber family , the wish of Hassan II .

This nuptial speed was due to two factors. Mohamed could not marry his living father (because there could be no other heir if his wife became pregnant) and he could not be king without getting married. On the other hand, her immediate separation from her was also due to the fact that, according to some information, she could not have children .

The backgrounds were very different and it was Lalla Salma who marked a change of era. The mother of Mohamed VI and his four brothers, Lalla Latefa , never posed for an official photo during the reign of the late Hassan II. She was absolutely relegated.

From the beginning, Salma didn't have any way. With it some customs ended and others began. Their relationship had not been arranged by the families, as tradition dictates. And her title was to be "royal highness", a distinction reserved for the king's sisters (such as Lalla Hasna , known in Spain for having a relationship with Miguel Báez, El Litri ).

Without a veil and with long reddish hair, she became the center of attention. She soon stood out as a graduate woman with brilliant qualifications in her scientific studies.

Top of her class, she has an engineering degree in computer science . She dedicated herself to that profession at ONA, the most important industrial and financial conglomerate in Morocco (coincidentally, the royal family is the largest shareholder, it owns almost 14%). She was Morocco's first royal princess, but she was already recognized in Casablanca, the holding company's headquarters. On her own merits.

What are the mysteries of Lalla Salma. 

She went from being a commoner who was simply going to do the job of being the mother of princes and princesses to showing her own identity. In the official information about her, she was described as a "radiant pearl of chastity , virtue and nobility ". For her part, the Moroccan press highlighted another aspect: her "innovative" character.

What the king liked the most was precisely his natural and simple air. He would go to his work in a blazer and jeans, and he would behave like someone without pretense. This information was corroborated when in 2005 the weekly Al Jarida Al-Oukhra exposed private details. They said that she ate with her assistants, that she herself fed her son and that she likes to walk barefoot through the palace rooms.

Journalists and confidants of the international press were fascinated with his figure. They discovered that the princess likes to get up late, that she drove her own car and that she used to take her children to her paternal grandmother's house (the royal was raised by her grandparents, because her mother died when she was three ) . years).

Due to her demeanor and attitude, she became a fashion benchmark, even compared to Rania from Jordan . However, she took pains to contribute something else: she presided over the Lalla Salma Foundation for the fight against cancer , opened hospitals, schools... In 2003 she gave birth to the heir Moulay Hassan , and in 2007, her second daughter, Lalla , was born. Khadija . They were 10 years of glory.

Their idyll ended (at least publicly) in 2018. The alarms sounded when Mohamed underwent surgery in Paris and in the images there was no trace of Lalla Salma. However, from the Royal House it was neither confirmed nor denied.

They only spoke to dispel the controversies. They launched a joint and official message to deny that he was not leaving his (ex?) wife free to visit their children. Between the lines, it was read that love had indeed ended. Meanwhile, Lalla Hasna , the monarch's younger sister, is the one who acts as first lady. As always, consort absent, substitute set.

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