Princess Lalla Aicha of Morocco


Princess Lalla Aicha of Morocco,, was the younger sister of the late King Hassan II of Morocco, and daughter of King Mohammed V of Morocco and his second wife, Lalla Abla bint Tahar.

Life and career

Princess Lalla Aicha was born at Rabat Royal Palace in Rabat, she was privately educated in Rabat and awarded a Baccalauréat degree. The exile in 1953 of Mohammed V and his family on Corsica interrupted her studies in languages. Lalla Aicha was the Ambassador of Morocco to the United Kingdom between 1965 and 1969, and then to Greece from 1969 to 1970, and to Italy between 1970 and 1973.
She was the first president of the , as well as president of the Moroccan Red Crescent Society from the 1950s until 1967 and honorary president of the National Union of Moroccan Women since 1969 until her death in 2011, at age 81.

Family

She married first on 16 August 1961, at the Dar al-Makhzin in Rabat, Moulay Hassan al-Yaqubi . Together they had two daughters:
Secondly, after their divorce in 1972, she married in August 1972 Moulay Hassan al-Mahdi, third son of Moulay Muhammad al-Mahdi bin Ismail, Khalifa of Tetuan.

Titles, styles and honours

Titles and styles

She received the following honours during her lifetime: