The 23rd monarch of the Alawite dynasty lost his mother. Princess Lalla Latifa, widow of King Hassan II, died on June 29, 2024. The face of the mother of King Mohammed VI was almost unknown to the population.
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Princess Lalla Latifa has died
This Saturday, June 29, 2024, via a press release, the Royal Palace of Rabat announced “with immense sadness and deep affliction” the death of Princess Lalla Latifa of Morocco on this day. Latifa Amahzoune, daughter of the Pasha of Khenifra from an important Amazigh family, had married King Hassan II on November 9, 1961. Hassan had succeeded his father a few months earlier.
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Princess Lalla Latifa, in accordance with Moroccan protocol, has never exercised official functions and has never played a public role. Very discreet, the princess gave five children to King Hassan II, and was more often described as “mother of royal children”. After living most of her life in France, she had settled in Marrakech in recent years. Her exact date of birth is not known but she was 78 years old.
After the death of King Hassan II in 1999, she remarried in 2000 to Mohamed Mediouri, former bodyguard and head of security for the royal family. The five children of King Hassan II and Princess Lalla Latifa are Princess Lalla Meryem (1962), King Mohammed VI (1963), Princess Lalla Asmaa (1965), Princess Lalla Hasnaa (1967) and Prince Moulay Rachid (1970).
