Lalla Fatima Zahra bint Abdelaziz

Princess Lalla Fatima-Zahra (13 June 1927 – d. 15 September 2003) was the daughter of Sultan Abdelaziz of Morocco and his wife, Lalla Yasmin Al Alaoui.

Biography Lalla Fatima Zahra was born in Tangier. Her parents are Sultan Abdelaziz of Morocco and his wife Lalla Yasmin al-Alaoui. She was born to a former Sultan of Morocco as her father abdicated in 1908 and took up his residence in Tangier as a pensioner of his successor sultan Moulay Abd al-Hafid. In Tangier Lalla Fatima Zahra went to school at l'École italienne and then pursued high school in the same city at the Collège français where she obtained her baccalauréat.

She was also Honorary President of:

(1971) the Moroccan Family Planning Association; the Moroccan Association for Contemporary Creations (AMCC); the Tangiers Region Association for Cultural Action; (2001) the Tangiers International Music Festival.

Private life Aged 16 she was engaged to her future husband, Her wedding was celebrated in great fanfare in this Spanish occupied city and many Moroccan and Spanish dignitaries were invited.

Death and burial Lalla Fatima Zahra died on 15 September 2003 in the medical clinic of the Royal palace of Rabat at the age of 76 years old. She was buried in the Moulay Al Hassan mausoleum, located within the grounds of the Royal palace of Rabat.