Princess

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Fatima Zohra (29 June 1929 – 10 August 2014) was the eldest daughter of

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and his first wife,

Lalla Hanila bint Mamoun Princess Lalla Hanila bint Mamoun was the first wife of Mohammed V of Morocco, who reigned from 1927 to 1961. Lalla Hanila is the mother of Princess Lalla Fatima Zohra. Life Lalla Hanila is the daughter of Prince Moulay Mohammed el-Mamoun, son ...

Biography

Lalla Fatima Zahra was born at the

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, her parents Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef and Princess

divorced shortly after her birth. She is the eldest of her father's children. Young, during the summer holidays she would join her father, the Sultan, at the royal palace of Oualidia and spend there the holidays with her half-siblings. On 16 August 1961 (in a triple ceremony with her sisters,

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, Malika and their husbands) she was married at the Dar al-Makhzen in

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to her cousin, Prince Moulay Ali Alaoui (1924–1988), ambassador of

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to France (1964–1966). The couple have one daughter and two sons: * Princess Lalla Joumala (born 1962), former ambassador of Morocco to the

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and ambassador of Morocco to the

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since 2016. * Sharif Moulay Abdallah (born c. 1965); * Sharif Moulay Youssef (born c. 1969); She became a widow in 1988.

Actions and sponsorships

She adopted Abdelkebir Ouaddar aged eight to the Moroccan royal family, when he was playing street football with her sons in his native village. He learned horse riding around the age of 12 thanks to Lalla Fatima Zohra, who allowed him to ride horses twice a week.

Death and burial

She died in

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, on the morning of August 10, 2014, at the age of 85 (her birth believed in 1929). King Mohammed VI canceled the ceremonies planned for his birthday due to the hardship that the loss of his aunt represent, and of her place in the royal family and the Moroccan people. She is buried in the Moulay Al Hassan mausoleum, in the royal palace of Rabat, after the al-Asr prayer.

Honours

National honours

* Dame Grand Cordon of the

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. *

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, 2nd Class (2007).

References

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