The Collège Royal is an education establishment located inside the royal palace in Rabat. Since its foundation in 1942, it specializes in the education of princes and princesses of the Alaouite dynasty.
The Collège Royal was created in 1942 by Mohammed V under the French protectorate. This came after, the monarch initially tried to send his son Hassan II to the Ecole des Roches in France but couldn't because of World War II. The school opens a class for each senior member of the Alaouite Royal family. It previously opened classes for Hassan II, Mohammed VI, Prince Moulay Rachid, Moulay Hassan, Crown Prince of Morocco, the daughters of Hassan II, Prince Moulay Ismail and Lalla Soukaina.
Some of the attendees:
Hassan II
Ahmed Reda Guedira
Ahmed Osman
Abdellah Gharnit
Prince Moualy Youssef Alaoui (son of Prince Moualy Idriss Alaoui, the older brother of Mohammed V)
Moulay Salama Ben Zidan
Abdesalam Berchid
Mohammed Hajji
Abdelhafid Kadiri (Minister of Sport in the 1970s)
The class was opened officially in 1973.
Mohammed VI
Fouad Ali El Himma*
Yassine Mansouri
Noureddine Bensouda
Rochdi Chraibi*
Fadel Benyaich
Driss Ait Mbarek, Governor of Figuig
Anas Khalès Ambassador to the Republic of Ireland
Samir El Yazidi, Governor of Tiznit
Hassan Aourid*
Karim Ramzi, a photographer and son of former Health Minister Ahmed Ramzi.
Zouheir Ibrahimi, the son of the personal Tailor of Hassan II, he currently holds a high position in the Ministry of the Interior
Naim Temsamani, was excluded from the school in 1977 (along with another student) because he was good at Math whereas the class was oriented to literary studies.
Prince Hicham Alaoui, until September 1972.
Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, until the age of 10.
Princess Meryem Alaoui, attended before the creation of a female-only class
* joined in 1977
Prince Moulay Rachid
Khalid Sakhi
Mehdi Jouahri
Prince Moulay Youssef Alaoui
Mehdi Ben Barka, was the teacher of mathematics for crown prince Hassan II.
Ahmed Bahnini, taught Arabic for the class of crown prince Hassan II.
