Etchika Choureau, born Jeaninne Paulette Verret (12 November 1929 – 25 January 2022), was a French film actress, active from 1953 to 1966.

She remained in the spotlight thereafter for her continued friendship with her former lover, King Hassan II of Morocco.

[1] The couple had been divorced for some time when she met Prince Moulay Hassan in 1956, who was then heir to the Moroccan throne.

[1][2] The couple entered a relationship until February 1961, when Hassan succeeded his father as king; Hassan's culture, and his royal responsibilities, required him to breakup with the foreign, Christian and divorced Choureau and marry a Muslim Moroccan – marrying Lalla Latifa in November 1961.

[1][2] Choureau and Hassan remained close lifelong friends, and the friendship extended to her second husband, Philippe Rheims, whom she married in 1968.