Word: malika
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...King died last February without redeeming his daughter's pledge. It was up to the new King, Aisha's 32-year-old brother Hassan II, to see her married. Hassan II acted swiftly. He sent word that it was his pleasure for Aisha and her two sisters, Malika, 28, and Fatima Zorah, 32, to marry expeditiously; the choice of husbands was left to them. Each woman promptly said yes to a suitor. Malika, who runs the Red Crescent Society (Moslem equivalent of the Red Cross), became engaged to Rabat's smooth Ambassador to France, Mohammed ben Abdallah...
Engaged. Princess Lalla Aisha, 30, Morocco's great female emancipator (TIME cover, Nov. 11, 1957 ), sister of King Hassan II; and Hassan Al Yakoubi, 26, prosperous landowner; at the royal palace in Rabat, in a double ceremony that saw her sleek, similarly Westernized sister, Princess Lalla Malika, 23, betrothed to Mohammed Cherkaoui, 40, Morocco's ambassador-designate to France...