{"id":213719,"date":"2023-08-27T14:24:18","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T14:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/?p=213719"},"modified":"2023-08-27T14:24:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T14:24:18","slug":"i-was-a-hotel-receptionist-but-now-ill-prove-im-a-princess-and-heir-to-4-3billion-royal-fortune-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/world-news\/i-was-a-hotel-receptionist-but-now-ill-prove-im-a-princess-and-heir-to-4-3billion-royal-fortune-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"I was a hotel receptionist &#8211; but now I&#x27;ll prove I&#x27;m a princess and heir to \u00a34.3BILLION royal fortune | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A FORMER hotel receptionist is on a mission to prove she is a royal princess &#8211; who should inherit\u00a0a \u00a34billion fortune.<\/p>\n<p>Jane Benzaquen, 70, is fighting to be recognised as a Moroccan royal, claiming to be the daughter of the late\u00a0King\u00a0Hassan. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/grandmother-70-daughter-jewish-shop-840581916.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The 70-year-old\u00a0Belgian-Israeli citizen has called on the country&#x27;s <span>Royal family<\/span> to submit DNA tests in order to prove she is a Moroccan princess.<\/p>\n<p>She claims her Jewish mum had an affair with King Hassan at the age of 17, when she was working as a shop assistant in a clothes shop in Casablanca.<\/p>\n<p>Jane says she was taken to Belgium as a baby and was raised by a foster family.<\/p>\n<p>The grandma says that initially, she had no interest in digging into her past.<\/p>\n<h2><span>read more on world<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2j5e5wk-international-conference-evidence-mass-840088272.jpg\"><\/p>\n<h3>Russia&#8217;s pro-war internet czar hails Prigozhin &#038; &#8216;issues veiled call to arms&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/newspress-collage-23652997-1693126185522.jpg\"><\/p>\n<h3>I&#8217;m best friends with a 15ft tiger shark\u2026 but she could kill at any moment<\/h3>\n<p>She told the Times: &quot;I was filled with anger, the past was a Pandora\u2019s box and I didn\u2019t want to open it.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>But Jane decided she wanted to uncover the truth after watching the <span>news<\/span> of the King&#x27;s death in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>She said: &quot;When I saw that photo, it was as if, at last, I belonged to someone.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Until then I didn\u2019t look like anyone in my family, now I did, I was happy. It was a revelation for me.&quot;<\/p>\n<h2>Most read in The Sun<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/tp-composite-grooming-gang.jpg\"><\/picture>\n<section class=\"css-1r4x4sg\"><span>GROOMING HELL <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>I was raped 22 times by a grooming gang &#8211; I&#x27;ll never get my childhood back<\/h3>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/GM_26-08_SCANLON_COMP-1.jpg\"><\/picture>\n<section class=\"css-1r4x4sg\"><span>HOW DARE VIEW <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Strictly star left furious after BBC boss branded her &#x27;t*ts &amp; teeth&#x27; of show<\/h3>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/TM-comp-Metropolitan-1.jpg\"><\/picture>\n<section class=\"css-1r4x4sg\"><span>MET BREACH <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Met Police on red alert after details of officers hacked in huge security breach<\/h3>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/GM_26-08_NECTAR-CLUBCARD_COMPARISION-v2.jpg\"><\/picture>\n<section class=\"css-1r4x4sg\"><span>LOYALTY ROYALTY <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Sainsbury&#x27;s Nectar versus Tesco Clubcard: Best loyalty card prices revealed<\/h3>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The woman already knew, thanks to <span>DNA<\/span> tests that Belgian Raoul Jossart, who was stated as her father on her birth certificate was not in fact her biological dad.<\/p>\n<p>Three separate DNA tests proved she had in fact no Western European ancestry but her genetic roots came from North Africa and the Middle East.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jane recalls her grandmother who moved to Belgium from Morocco, telling her stories about\u00a0the royal Mercedes arriving at their home in Casablanca and dropping food and money.<\/p>\n<p>She said the <span>luxury<\/span> vehicle would then take her mum Freha to trysts with the <span>prince<\/span> which resulted in the love affair.<\/p>\n<p>The relationship allegedly lasted for two years between 1951 and 1953- the King was later said to have been infatuated with French actress Etchika Choureau before his <span>marriage<\/span> to Moroccan Lalla Latif.<\/p>\n<p>In her fight to be recognised as a Moroccan royal, Jane has employed Belgian lawyer Marc Uyttendaele. <\/p>\n<p>Uyttendaele hopes to persuade Hassan&#x27;s children or even another relative to submit a DNA test.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Having blue blood doesn\u2019t mean you should be treated differently from anyone else,&quot; the lawyer said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/23672555\/hotel-receptionist-princess-heir-royal-fortune\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A FORMER hotel receptionist is on a mission to prove she is a royal princess &#8211; who should inherit\u00a0a \u00a34billion fortune. Jane Benzaquen, 70, is fighting to be recognised as a Moroccan royal, claiming to be the daughter of the late\u00a0King\u00a0Hassan. 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