Kasia Al Thani

Kasia Al Thani (2 October 1976 – 29 May 2022) was the third wife of Sheikh Abdelaziz bin Khalifa Al Thani, the son of Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar.

Biography She was born as Kasia Gallanio in Kraków, Poland, but grew up in Los Angeles, California, United States. While she was a 19-year-old student in Paris, she met her future husband, who had lived in exile in France since 1992 in a palace on Avenue Montaigne. In 2004, she became his third wife. They had three daughters together; twins Sheikha Malak and Sheika Yasmine (b. 2005), and Sheikha Reem (b. 2006). In 2007, she launched a luxury gifting shopping company called Savoir-Faire.com,

She discovered fraudulent activity on her husband's account at Barclays Bank in Marbella and spearheaded a €50m/£40m legal action against the bank. In 2009, Barclays settled for an undisclosed amount. She later filed for divorce, and the couple fought over custody of their daughters for ten years, after allegations that he sexually assaulted their eldest child.