Royalty and the British prince Harry (34) and his pregnant wife Meghan (37) on a state visit, that is generally beneficial for your popularity. Not so in Morocco, where king Mohammed VI (55) in place of acclaim especially a lot of questions about him. Because where was his (ex?)-wife, princess Lalla Salma (40)? Its absence makes the rumors about his own sexual orientation in all its flare up.
It is already October 2017, ago, princess Lalla Salma in the public appeared. Her duties as a hostess were during the recent visit of Harry and Meghan to Morocco taken over by tienerprins Moulay Hassan, Muhammad’s successor. Lalla Salma has reportedly already some time ago, the royal palace, and left numerous comments about how and why lead to tensions in the country where love between people of the same sex to be quite difficult.
a Promising start
In the Moroccan politics was already great discontent when the king decided to have Pierre Berg, the figurehead of the French gay and lesbian movement, and the friend of the deceased fashion icon Yves Saint Laurent, in the order of knights of the Alawite. Now Mohammed, not even a woman has more to the appearance of a heterosexual life, there has been speculation that he will have to resign as soon as the crown prince reached the age of majority. All of hope to many oppressed Moroccan gays just as Muhammad on the throne continues to sit after he gets out of the cabinet.
The political career of king Mohammed VI started yet promising. Twenty years ago, after the death of his authoritarian father, Hassan II, he made a strong wind blow. The expectations were high, especially when Mohammed also married the handsome computerspecialiste Salma Bennani. Muhammad’s own mother Latifa, a berberprinses, led the hidden life of a haremvrouw. Lalla Salma on the other hand did everything possible to make the image of Morocco as a progressive islamic country to improve. They symbolized the modernization that Muhammad propagated. Even on her wedding wore Salma not to wear a headscarf. She was given the title ‘princess’, a first for Morocco, and worked for official assignments at home and abroad, making them the world’s first real first lady was in an islamic nation. But their fairy tale didn’t last. According to some sources, the couple two years ago in silence to be separated.
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