About Lalla Salma Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco (Arabic: الأميرة للا سلمى‎) born Salma Bennani on May 10, 1978 is the Princess Consort of King Mohammed VI of Morocco and the first wife of a Moroccan ruler to have been publicly acknowledged and given a royal title.Salma was born in Fes, Morocco to a primary school teacher father. Her mother died when she was three years old; from then on she was raised by her maternal grandmother. She lived in Rabat with her cousin Saira, the two are commonly seen in public. She was educated in Rabat. Upon completing her primary education, she qualified for an honors program that was initiated by the Ministry of National Education, which resulted in her obtaining a baccalaureate in 1995 with science and was her class valedictorian. After as an information services engineer at the ONA Group, the country's largest private holding company, which is controlled by the Moroccan Royal Family.