Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco
"Lalla" Salma (born Salma Bennani, Tamazight: ⵙⴰⵍⵎⴰ ⴱⵉⵏⵏⴰⵏⵉ, , 10 May 1978) is the Queen consort of Morocco. She is married to King Mohammed VI, and the first wife of a Moroccan ruler to have been publicly acknowledged and given a royal title. Since she has not been seen by media since December 2017, it has been speculated that the couple are divorced. Early life and education. She was born as Salma Bennani in Fez, although some sources cite Marrakech as her place of birth. Her parents were Hadj Abdelhamid Bennani, a schoolteacher, and Naïma Bensouda , who died in 1981, when Salma was three years old; from then on she and her sister Meryem were raised by her maternal grandmother, Hajja Fatma Abdellaoui Maâne. She lived in Rabat, with her half cousin Saira, and the two are commonly seen together in public. She was educated in Rabat, where she attended a private school, Lycée Hassan II, Lycée Moulay Youssef, and l'École Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et d'Analyse de Systèmes. She met her husband during a private party in 1999. After completing her engineering studies, she worked for a few months as an information services engineer at ONA  Group, the country's largest private holding company (which is also controlled by the Moroccan Royal Family). Marriage and children. Lalla Salma married King Mohammed VI on 20 March 2002 (the "sadaq" or proclamation of marriage) and in July 2002 (the "zafaf" or celebration of marriage) at the "Dar al-Makhzen" (the principal Royal palace) in Rabat. Activities. "Lalla" Salma has kept quite a low profile as Princess of Morocco, although a more public one than her predecessors. She supports cancer associations and the Fez Sacred Music Festival. Lalla Salma has represented the King and Morocco in meetings and gatherings  in Saudi Arabia, Japan, Thailand, Palestine, Tunisia and France. On 29 April 2011, she attended the wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine Middleton. She also attended the wedding of Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg, and Countess Stéphanie de Lannoy in 2012 and 2013 inauguration of King Willem-Alexander. In 2005, Lalla Salma founded a cancer prevention association in Morocco. She created the Lalla Salma Foundation – Prevention and Treatment of Cancer and has also been involved in HIV/AIDS prevention in Africa. In 2006, Princess Lalla Salma was named a Goodwill Ambassador of the World Health Organization  for the Cancer Care, Promotion and Prevention. Besides being involved in cancer and HIV/AIDS prevention, she also supports and encourages women's empowerment.