[4] Her father is Abdelhamid Bennani, a university teacher who taught at l'École normale supérieure de Fès[9] and her mother is Naïma Bensouda,[10] who died in 1981 when Salma was three years old.

Lalla Salma also presided annually over the celebration of World No Tobacco Day, where the Foundation presented the achievements of its "Tobacco-Free Colleges and High Schools" program (launched in November 2007).

[19] In 2006, Princess Lalla Salma was named a Goodwill Ambassador of the World Health Organization for the Cancer Care, Promotion and Prevention.

[20] From 2004 to her divorce in 2018, she presided over the opening ceremony of the Fez Sacred Music Festival, an event under the Patronage of King Mohammed VI.

[21] Lalla Salma represented the King and Morocco in meetings and gatherings in Saudi Arabia, Japan, Thailand, Palestine, Tunisia and France.

She also attended the wedding of Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg, and Countess Stéphanie de Lannoy in 2012 and 2013 inauguration of King Willem-Alexander.

[28] She had already left her husband before his hospitalization on February 26, 2018, which explained her absence at the king's bedside (after his heart arrhythmia surgery in Paris).

[29] Spanish journalist Andrea Mori claimed: 'In talking with a friend in Morocco, [I learned] that it is likely that money is given to Lalla Salma and that she be hidden from the public...'.

[34] After her divorce, Lalla Salma remained in Morocco, which denied rumors that she had settled in France, where she had many friends, or in Greece, where she owned properties.