Parliament pays tribute
The Chief Minister began with Lady Hassan, Marcelle Bensimon and stated that although she was not a native Gibraltarian she became one. She arrived in Gibraltar from her native Morocco to work for a worthy and charitable purpose.
Having been married to Sir Joshua in 1969, she experienced with him his only, short lived, election loss and his subsequent four consecutive election wins “As the spouse of Chief Minister, Lady Hassan carried the burden of being in the public eye at an immensely difficult time,” he said.
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