Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco, nee
Salma Bennani, was born in Fes, Morocco, on 10 May 1978. Her
parents were El Haj Abdelhamid Bennani (a schoolteacher) and Naïma
Bensouda, and she has a sister, Meryem Bennani. Born into a
middle-class family, at the age of three, Salma lost her mother in
1981 and from that moment on, they were raised by her
grandmother, Hajja Fatma Abdellaoui Maâne in…
Yesterday Queen Rania Al Abdullah of
Jordan made an official visit to Millennium Park to attend a
carnival organised by the Madrasati Initiative. Her Majesty
launched the Initiative in 2008 to improve learning environments in
Jordanian public schools and at the carnival she…
King of Jordan attends 2018 King Abdullah II World Interfaith Harmony Week Prize Ceremony
25th April 2018
King Abdullah of Jordan was at Al
Husseiniya Palace yesterday to present awards to winners of the
2018 King Abdullah II World Interfaith Harmony Week Prize. Launched
in 2013 by the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, the
annual prize ceremony recognises three…
King Norodom Sihamoni, the King of
Cambodia since 2004, has addressed the Senate this week for the
first time since the ruling party won all the available seats in a
recent controversial election. He urged the members of the Senate
to protect justice and human rights, as currently the Prime
Minister Hun Sen’s Cambodian People’s Party now have 58 of the 62
seats in the upper house. The King…
Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi issues new statement to Iranian royalists following demonstrations
23rd April 2018
Saturday morning, Iran’s Crown Prince,
Reza Pahlavi, issued a public statement where he stated his support
for the new Iranian protests. In his statement, the Crown Prince
highlighted the courage of the Iranian people. The Crown Prince
released the statement from his home…
You might need to update your maps of
Africa, as King Mswati III, has renamed Swaziland. It is now the
Kingdom of eSwatini, which means “land of the Swazis” in
Swazi. The Kingdom of eSwatini was the name of the African nation
before the British colonised it in the early…
Monday evening last (16th April) Princess
Lalla Hasna represented her brother King Mohammed VI of Morocco at
the opening of the Qatar National Library (QNL) in Doha as a guest
of His Highness the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani. This
visit further strengthens the close ties between the two countries,
following the visit to Qatar in November by her brother and a visit
to Morocco last month by…
Sayako Kuroda was born on 18 April 1969
as the first daughter and third child of the then Crown Prince
Akihito and then Crown Princess Michiko. Her grandfather, Emperor
Shōwa, named her Sayako and gave her the title of The Princess
Nori. From birth, she was also entitled to…
His Majesty King Abdullah of Jordan
delivered the opening address of the 29th Arab Summit yesterday in
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. The Jordanian monarch was president of the
28th Arab Summit – held in Jordan in March of last year – and in
his speech, he thanked the Secretary…
Prince Seeiso of Lesotho and Prince Harry
have worked together with the Sentebale charity. He was born on the
16th April 1966 as the second son of the late King Moshoeshoe II
and Queen Mamohato and is the younger brother of the present
monarch, King Letsie III. He benefitted as a child, in that he was
a Chevening Scholar, this is a scheme funded by the Foreign &
Commonwealth Office which supports…
