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 Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani (; 17 September 1932 – 23 October 2016) was the Emir of Qatar from 1972 Qatari coup d'état, 27 February 1972 until he was deposed by his son Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Hamad bin Khalifa in a 1995 Qatari coup d'� ...

, Emir of Qatar.

Biography

She was born as Kasia Gallanio in

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, but grew up in

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, United States. While she was a 19-year-old student in

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, she met her future husband, who had lived in exile in

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since 1992 in a palace on

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. In 2004, she became his third wife. They had three daughters together; twins Sheikha Malakand Sheika Yasmine (b. 2005), and Sheikha Reem (b. 2006). In 2007, she launched a luxury gifting shopping company called Savoir-Faire.com, which went into voluntary liquidation in 2010. 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. Afterwards, she filed for divorce, and the couple fought over custody of their daughters for ten years, after allegations that he sexually assaulted their eldest child. In April 2018, she joined the FC Martigues business team. She resided in

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, Spain, where she was found dead of an apparent drug overdose on 29 May 2022. She was buried by the arabic rite in an undisclosed town in Córdoba.La jequesa de Marbella enterrada, por el rito árabe, en un pueblo de Córdoba
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Savoir Faire
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