2023-08-27 21:00:00
A Belgian-Israeli citizen is sure that she is the sister of the King Mohammed VI of Moroccoasked the royal family to undergo DNA tests and is determined to find the truth following hiring one of the best lawyers in Belgium.
A former receptionist at a hotel in Israel, Jane Benzaquen, now 70, started legal proceedings in Belgium to prove that she is the daughter of King Hassan II of Morocco.who was crowned in 1961, reigned with an iron fist and passed away in June 1999.
If your story is proven, Jane Benzaquen would be the sister of the current Moroccan sovereign, and to prove it, she asked members of the royal family to undergo DNA tests, in her fight to be recognized as the daughter of the late king. She said that she does it for her children and grandchildren: “They have the right to know where they come from”.
And as proof that his claim is serious, Benzaquen hired Belgian lawyer and constitutional expert Marc Uyttendaele, who became famous for winning a case in which artist Delphine Böel was granted recognition as a member of Belgium’s royal family following getting her to his father, King Albert II, had his DNA tested.
Jane Benzaquen assures that his mother Freha Benzaquen, a Jewish woman, had a secret relationship with the then Crown Prince Moulay Hassan following meeting him at the age of 17 while working as a clerk in a clothing store in the Moroccan city of Casablanca.
The woman said that the official cars of the court took her mother to secret appointments with the Moroccan prince who was receiving military training at the time, which led to an absolutely unexpected and forbidden romance: that of a young Jewish girl with the future Muslim “prince of believers” of Morocco.
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Jane related that her own grandmother told her that the prince Hassan was visiting his family’s house in Casablanca in a Mercedes to leave money and food.
The relationship of Prince Hassan and Freha Benzaquen would have lasted between 1951 and 1953, and following the birth of Jane, on November 14, 1953, the king fell in love with the French film actress Etchika Choureau, with whom he had an affair -also secret – between 1956 and 1961.
At ten months old, Janee Benzaquen was taken to Belgium to be raised by an adoptive family while her mother was forced to leave Morocco and work as an actress under the name of “Anita Benzaquen” in Belgiumwhere he died in 1996.
Lawyer Marc Uyttendaele claims that Belgian Raoul Jossart, listed as the father of Jane Benzaquen on her birth certificate, may have been hired by King Hassan II and that his wedding to Freha was “a farce”, since the groom was in Sweden at the time of the ceremony.
Hassan II’s harem
In 1961, King Mohammed V died and his son Hassan II became the 18th King of Morocco’s Alawite dynasty and Prince of the Believers. Following the inescapable royal tradition, the very day he ascended the throne he secretly married a young Berber woman, Lalla Fátima Amaroq.
Days following, Hassan II married Lalla Latifa Hammou, a Berber from the Zaine tribe, who was the mother of King Mohamed VI and his brothers, but she has never appeared in public or been seen in family photographs. At the same time, also obedient to traditions, the king inherited his father’s harem, then made up of some 50 concubines and some slaves delivered by tribal leaders.
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Hassan II extended his harem until the ’80s: adolescents were chosen for their beauty and then cloistered for life in royal palaces. It was said that, unlike her father, he only had tea with them once a month, until he arranged a marriage for them and provided them with a handsome royal dowry in their early 20s.
With the desire to modernize the Court, the current King Mohammed VI abolished the harem, indemnifying and freeing the women he had “inherited” from his father. The royal concubines were discreetly removed from the Rabat palace and rehoused in comfortable apartments along with a generous pension.
Jane Benzaquen searches for her identity
Jane Benzaquen, who moved to Israel at age 18 to join the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and worked as a receptionist at an Eilat hotelshe is fighting to prove that she is a true princess and eldest daughter of the Moroccan royal family.
In an interview with the London newspaper The Times, she recounted that before the death of King Hassan II, she had refused to delve into her own past because “she was full of anger.” “The past was a Pandora’s box and I didn’t want to open it,” Benzaquen said.
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But the news of Hassan II’s death in June 1999, which shocked Moroccans, awakened in her the need to discover the truth: “Until then I didn’t look like anyone in my family, now I do, and I was happy. It was a revelation for me,” she recounted.
The first step in filing her claim was to prove that she was not the daughter of Raoul Jossart, who died in 2001: DNA tests showed that Jane was not actually his biological daughter.
Three separate DNA tests, carried out later, showed that Jane Benzaquen does not have Western European ancestrymaking it impossible that he was of Belgian origin, and that his genetics have their roots in North Africa and the Middle East.
According to the Belgian business newspaper Litter, “possible economic compensation” in favor of Benzaquen “might amount to millions of euros, regarding fifteen.” But following the case reached the Brussels courts, King Mohammed VI refused to produce the DNA evidence claimed by his alleged half-sister.
Lawyer Stanislas Eskenazi, who represents the Moroccan royal house, filed a countersuit once morest Benzaquen, accusing her of “extortion.” The lawyer regrets that “Belgian justice is kidnapped” and “hopes to get the conviction of who he considers a fraudster.”
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He further argued that the royal family, which is protected by censorship in Morocco, has immunity from prosecution and would not respond to the paternity claim: “If you start doing that, you will spend all your time in the hospital doing tests,” he said.
Uyttendaele does not lose hope of convincing Hassan II’s children or even another relative to undergo a DNA test that will allow Jane to learn the truth of her origin: “Having blue blood doesn’t mean you should be treated differently from others,” he said.
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