![]() ![]() The coup d'etat failed, and Oufkir was summarily executed. ![]() Oufkir, Morocco's feared police chief and Defense Minister, tried to seize power by having the King's plane shot down. A few years earlier, she had been allowed to return to the home of General Mohammed Oufkir, her father. But that confinement paled next to the one that was to last more than 20 years and that began suddenly one afternoon in August 1972. As a spoiled teenager, she cavorts with jet setters and fancies becoming a film star.ĭesperately missing her natural parents, Malika hardly considered her forced adoption a dream come true. She greets so many foreign dignitaries it makes her yawn. She rides horseback with royalty, giggles through Cabinet meetings and travels on state visits. Beautiful palaces become her playgrounds her every wish is a servant's command. ![]() For the next 11 years, until well after King Hassan II succeeds to the throne, she lives the incredible life of a Moroccan princess. She is a rebellious 5-year-old in frilly dresses when she is adopted by King Mohammed V to become a favorite daughter's perpetual playmate. A prison memoir, Malika Oufkir's story opens sweetly, as if her life were a fairy tale in reverse. ![]()
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