Princesses Lalla Asmaa, Lalla Meryem and Lalla Hasna received at the Élysée Palace at the invitation of Madame Brigitte Macron. “On this occasion, President Emmanuel Macron came to greet them,” added the presidency, also specifying that the head of state “recently spoke by telephone with His Majesty Mohammed VI” Recent years have been punctuated by extremely strong tensions between Morocco and France, a former colonial power where a large Moroccan diaspora lives.