Lalla Latifa Amahzoune

Latifa Amahzoune
Princess Dowager of Morocco
Born1943/1944
Khenifra, Morocco
Died29 June 2024 (aged 79–81)
Rabat, Morocco
Burial
Moulay El Hassan Mausoleum
Dar al-Makhzen, Rabat
Spouse
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(m. 1961; died 1999)​

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(m. 2000)​
IssuePrincess Lalla Meryem
King Mohammed VI
Princess Lalla Asma
Princess Lalla Hasna
Prince Moulay Rachid
FatherHassan ould Mouha ou Hammou Zayani

Princess Hajja Lalla Latifa (Arabic: الحاجة للا لطيفة;[1][2][3] born Amahzoune, 1943/1944 – 29 June 2024) was the wife of King Hassan II of Morocco, and the mother of Princess Lalla Meryem, King Mohammed VI, Princesses Lalla Asma and Lalla Hasna, and Prince Moulay Rachid.[4][5][6]

  1. ^ "Hassan II du Maroc invité de "L'Heure de Vérité" | Archive INA". YouTube (in French). 23 July 2019. From 1:06:30s to 1:07:30s. Archived from the original on 20 June 2023. Retrieved 20 June 2023. Journalist: Why don't we know the Queen of Morocco ? King Hassan II's response: ... there has never been a Queen ... when I have the opportunity to present the mother of princes who bears the title of Princess [but who] not that of Queen. Who has no political activity ... I present her very normally because I believe that she is, that she is well brought up, that she is very presentable ...
  2. ^ Aissa Amourag (17 October 2008). "Une escroquerie presque parfaite". MarocHebdo. Archived from the original on 28 January 2013. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
  3. ^ "وزير سابق رافق الأميرة للا لطيفة للعمرة والحج: كان تدينها قويا وتواضعها شديدا". اليوم 24 – أخبار اليوم على مدار الساعة (in Arabic). Retrieved 1 July 2024. Regarding his accompanying the mother of King Mohammed VI to perform the Umrah and Hajj rituals in 2005, Al-Samadi explained that he was honored, along with Dr. Muhammad Al-Sarrar, a professor at the Faculty of Sharia in Fez, upon assignment by the Scientific Committee of the Ministry of Endowments and Islamic Affairs, to accompany Her Royal Highness the Honorable Lalla Latifa, the mother of His Majesty the King. "In performing the rituals of Umrah and Hajj."
  4. ^ (24 July 1999). Morocco's King Hassan dies, aged 70 Archived 24 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine, Independent Online (South Africa)
  5. ^ (27 March 1989). Royal Treat for Maggie Archived 22 July 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Evening Times
  6. ^ (15 February 2009). Prohibido publicar fotos de la madre de Mohamed VI (Forbidden to publish photographs of Mohamed VI's mother), El País (in Spanish)