La Prisonniere
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Malika Oufkir has been a prisoner for virtually her whole life. Born to a proud family in 1953, daughter of the King of Morocco's aide, Malika was adopted by Mohammed V as a royal ward and brought to live in the palace at Rabat to be a companion to his favourite daughter. She grew up locked away among the royal wives and concubines of the King's harem. After the old king died his successor Hassan II took over the role of her adoptive father. By the time she was allowed to leave the palace at the age of sixteen, she was one of the most eligible heiresses, and tasted a couple of years of heady freedom amongst the international jetset. ut in 1972, when Malika was eighteen, her father, General Oufkir, was arrested after an attempt to assassinate the king, and executed. Malika, her mother and her brothers and sisters - were thrown into a desert jail by the man Malika had only known as a loving surrogate father. The family was locked away without any communication with the outside world in increasingly barbaric and inhumane conditions, fighting a daily battle against malnutrition, disease, loneliness and despair. fter fifteen years of imprisonment, last ten which they were locked u
Author: Malika Oufkir
Format: Paperback, 400 pages, 108mm x 179mm, 206 g
Published: 2001, Transworld Publishers Ltd, United Kingdom
Genre: Biography: General
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Malika Oufkir has been a prisoner for virtually her whole life. Born to a proud family in 1953, daughter of the King of Morocco's aide, Malika was adopted by Mohammed V as a royal ward and brought to live in the palace at Rabat to be a companion to his favourite daughter. She grew up locked away among the royal wives and concubines of the King's harem. After the old king died his successor Hassan II took over the role of her adoptive father. By the time she was allowed to leave the palace at the age of sixteen, she was one of the most eligible heiresses, and tasted a couple of years of heady freedom amongst the international jetset. ut in 1972, when Malika was eighteen, her father, General Oufkir, was arrested after an attempt to assassinate the king, and executed. Malika, her mother and her brothers and sisters - were thrown into a desert jail by the man Malika had only known as a loving surrogate father. The family was locked away without any communication with the outside world in increasingly barbaric and inhumane conditions, fighting a daily battle against malnutrition, disease, loneliness and despair. fter fifteen years of imprisonment, last ten which they were locked u
La Prisonniere