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Princess Lalla Joumala Alaoui (born 1962, Rabat) is a Moroccan diplomat, Ambassador of Morocco to the United States, and the former Ambassador of Morocco to the United Kingdom.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Early life

Princess Lalla Joumala Alaoui was educated at the Mission laïque française of Rabat then at the University of Oxford Faculty of Oriental Studies, where she graduated with a Bachelor in law.^[3] After, she settled in Casablanca, where she became active in some of the city's NGOs.^[3]

For a brief period in 1999–2000, she was diplomatic attaché at the Moroccan Embassy to United Nations.^[3]

She is the President of the Moroccan-British Society.

She is the maternal first cousin and the paternal second cousin of King Mohammed VI; daughter of Prince Moulay Ali (a cousin of King Hassan II) and Princess Lalla Fatima Zohra, the eldest daughter of Mohammed V and the older half-sister of King Hassan II.^{[citation needed]}

She married Iranian businessman Mohammad Reza Nouri Esfandiari (a relative of Princess Soraya, ex-Queen of Iran) in October 1986 and they have two children.^{[citation needed]}

USA :
- Honored Citizen of Dallas (15 November 2017).^[4]
- Ambassador of the year 2023 by the National U.S.–Arab Chamber of Commerce [NUSACC] (11 December 2023).^[5]^[6]

She is a member of the Metropolitan Club of Washington DC, and a member of the Cosmos Club.