After a rather quiet year in public, Princess Lalla Salma strode back back into the spotlight this week to join King Mohammed at a state dinner in the luxurious surroundings of Marrakech's Royal Palace. As one observer said "The Princess looked an absolute a vision in a fuchsia kaftan." Hello magazine said the dress " perfectly complemented her red tresses." The much-loved royal helped her husband receive French President Nicolas Sarkozy during his three-day official visit to the country.
It has been a relatively low-key year for the 29-year-old, much of which she has spent with her children after the birth of her second child, Princess Lalla Kadija, in February. Her return to public duties was marked by a meeting with her good friend Queen Rania of Jordan this summer. The stylish duo, both highly educated and successful professionals before marrying their royal spouses, visited two Unicef-supported projects in Fez highlighting the country’s efforts in combating child labour, a cause close to the royal pals’ hearts.
Since she wed King Mohammed in 2002, the porcelain-skinned beauty - the first female member of the Moroccan royal family to have been publicly acknowledged and given a royal title - has played an important part in receiving foreign dignitaries and marking state occasions. Her increasingly high profile role is just one of her husband's efforts to modernise his country.
For all the latest on Princess Lalla Salma go to our photo essay: The People's Princess
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2 comments:
There's an error in your post. Lalla Salma certainly isn't the first female member of the Royal Family to get ample press coverage in Morocco - Lalla Amina, Lalla Aïcha, Lalla Malika (sisters of the late Hassan II), Lalla Asmaa, Lalla Hasna, Lalla Meriem (sisters of King Mohammed VI) and Lalla Soukaïna (daughter of Lalla Meriem) have all gotten a large press coverage previously, as early as the 1940's. The new and revolutionary thing in Moroccan Royal protocol has been the fact that the King's wife, Lalla Salma, has had press coverage, a phenomenon unheard of previously.
Soon you will see the wife of prince Moulay Rachid, the pretty journalist kawtar krifi, she is very beautiful and very cute
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