Moulay Hassan, Crown Prince of Morocco


Moulay Hassan is the Crown Prince of Morocco. 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 Royal Palace of Rabat to King Mohammed VI and Princess Lalla Salma. He was named after his grandfather, the late King Hassan II. He is the eldest child of the king and has one sibling, Princess Lalla Khadija.
Moulay Hassan pursued his primary, middle and high school education at the Royal College of Rabat. He is a polyglot who speaks several languages: Arabic, Tamazight, English, French and Spanish.
Since his teenage years, Moulay Hassan has held the rank of Colonel in the Royal Guard, the Royal Army and the Royal Air Force. In 2025, he was promoted to the rank of Colonel-Major in the Royal Armed Forces.
He earned his high school diploma 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 of University Mohammed VI Polytechnic, 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 Tanger-Med as a leading port and vital asset to the Mediterranean. On 30 September of that year, Moulay Hassan attended in Paris the funeral of the late French President Jacques Chirac, which took place at the Saint-Sulpice Church. On the same day, he took part in the lunch organized by President Emmanuel Macron, at the Élysée Palace, 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 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 2022 FIFA World Cup.

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, when he was young, he played football at the training center of the Royal Armed Forces of Maamoura, in Rabat, with several children of soldiers. He also loves basketball, and was eager to participate in his university club competition despite the COVID-19 pandemic.
He 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, Paris Match magazine described Moulay El Hassan as "a son who listens to his father's advice". In 2018, in his capacity as crown prince, a Gulfstream G650 private jet newly acquired by the FAR was allocated to him.

Foreign honours