| Lalla Fatima Zohra | |
| Royal House: | Alaouite dynasty |
| Father: | Mohammed V |
| Mother: | Lalla Hanila bint Mamoun |
| Birth Date: | 29 June 1929 |
| Birth Place: | Rabat, French Morocco |
| Death Place: | Cabo Negro, M'diq, Morocco[1] |
| Place Of Burial: | Moulay El Hassan Mausoleum, Dar al-Makhzen, Rabat |
| Issue: | Princess Lalla Joumala Sharif Moulay Abdallah Sharif Moulay Youssef |
| Religion: | Islam |
Princess Lalla Fatima Zohra (29 June 1929 – 10 August 2014) was the eldest daughter of Mohammed V of Morocco and his first wife, Lalla Hanila bint Mamoun.[2]
Lalla Fatima Zahra was born at the Royal Palace of Rabat, her parents Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef and Princess Lalla Hanila bint Mamoun divorced shortly after her birth.[3] She is the eldest of her father's children. Young, during the summer holidays she would join her father, the Sultan, at the royal palace of Oualidia and spend there the holidays with her half-siblings.[4]
On 16 August 1961 (in a triple ceremony with her sisters, Aisha, Malika and their husbands) she was married at the Dar al-Makhzen in Rabat to her cousin, Prince Moulay Ali Alaoui (1924–1988), ambassador of Morocco to France (1964–1966). The couple have one daughter and two sons:
She became a widow in 1988.[6]
She adopted Abdelkebir Ouaddar aged eight to the Moroccan royal family, when he was playing street football with her sons in his native village.[7] [8] He learned horse riding around the age of 12 thanks to Lalla Fatima Zohra, who allowed him to ride horses twice a week.[9]
She died in Tétouan, on the morning of August 10, 2014, at the age of 85 (her birth believed in 1929). King Mohammed VI canceled the ceremonies planned for his birthday due to the hardship that the loss of his aunt represent, and of her place in the royal family and the Moroccan people. She is buried in the Moulay Al Hassan mausoleum, in the royal palace of Rabat, after the al-Asr prayer.[10]