Hassan II was King of Morocco from 1961 until his death in 1999.
Hassan II in 1983
Mawlay Hassan studying at the Royal College in 1943
Mawlay Hassan and his father, Sultan Mohammed V in 1950
King Hassan II greeting the public on his way to prayer in Marrakesh, 1966
The 'Alawi dynasty – also rendered in English as Alaouite, 'Alawid, or Alawite – is the current Moroccan royal family and reigning dynasty. They are an Arab sharifian dynasty and claim descent from the Islamic prophet Muhammad through his grandson, Hasan ibn Ali. Their ancestors originally migrated to the Tafilalt region, in present-day Morocco, from Yanbu on the coast of the Hejaz in the 12th or 13th century.
The walls of the Kasbah Cherarda in Fez, a garrison fort built by Mawlay ar-Rashid in order to house some of his guich tribes
Bab Mansour, the monumental entrance to Mawlay Ismail's imperial palaces in Meknes, finished in 1732
The Mausoleum of Mawlay Ismail in Meknes, which contains his tomb and that of his son Ahmad adh-Dhahabi
Gate and fortifications in the port of Essaouira today, founded in 1764 by Sultan Muhammad ibn Abdallah as a port for European merchants