Moulay Hassan, Crown Prince Of Morocco
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Moulay Hassan (; born 8 May 2003) is the
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of
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. He is the elder child of King Mohammed VI and Princess Lalla Salma. He has a younger sister, Princess Khadija. He is named after his grandfather Hassan II. In 2013, he began participating with his father at public official engagements.


Early life and education

Moulay Hassan was born at the Rabat Royal Palace to King Mohammed VI and Princess Lalla Salma. He was named after his grandfather, the late King Hassan II. The oldest child of the current king, he has a sister, Princess Lalla Khadija. Moulay Hassan pursued his primary, middle and high school education at the Royal College of Rabat. He is a
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who speaks several languages:
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,
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, English, French and Spanish. Since his teenage years, Moulay Hassan has held the rank of
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in the Royal Guard, the Royal Army and the
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. He earned his
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with honors from the Royal College in 2020, after completing his exams at the Lycée Dar es Salaam, a public high school in Rabat. Later that year, he enrolled at the Faculty of Governance, Economics and Social Sciences (FGSES) of Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P), located on the Rabat campus in Salé, where he majored in international relations.


Official duties

As crown prince, Moulay Hassan was the youngest participant at the One Planet Summit in France in 2017, where he gained international acclaim. In this respect, he is following in his father’s footsteps. On 28 June 2019, Moulay Hassan represented his father, King Mohammed VI, at the operations launch ceremony of the new port Tanger Med II, cementing
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as a leading port and vital asset to the Mediterranean. On 30 September of that year, Moulay Hassan attended in
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the funeral of the late French President
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, which took place at the Saint-Sulpice Church. On the same day, he took part in the lunch organized by President
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, at the
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, in honor of the Heads of State present at the funeral of the deceased President Chirac. On November 17, 2022, Moulay El Hassan inaugurated the International Exhibition and Museum of the Biography of the Prophet and Islamic Civilization at the Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ICESCO) in Rabat. On 20 December of the same year, along with his father, the King, and uncle, Prince Moulay Rachid, Moulay Hassan received the members of the national football team in the Throne Room of the Royal Palace of Rabat, following their performance in the
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.


Private life

In 2014, aged 10, his father gifted him a luxury car, which became his first car registered in his name. Moulay Hassan loves football and basketball. When he was young, he played football at the training center of the Royal Armed Forces (FAR) of Maamoura, in Rabat, with several children of soldiers. He also practices horse riding, his father Mohammed VI personally follows his training programs. In November 2016, in a report entitled "Private lesson" dedicated to their father-son duo, ''
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'' magazine described Moulay El Hassan as "a son who listens to his father's advice". In 2018, in his capacity as crown prince, a
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pandemic.


Foreign honours

* : Grand Cross of the
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(29 October 2024). * : Grand Cordon of the Order of the Republic (31 May 2014).


Ancestry


See also

* List of current heirs apparent *


References


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hassan, Moulay 2003 births Living people People from Rabat Moroccan princes Moroccan royalty Crown princes Sons of kings Alumni of the Royal College (Rabat) Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour