Kasia Al Thani

Kasia Al Thani (2 October 1976 – 29 May 2022)^[1][2] was the third wife of Sheikh Abdelaziz bin Khalifa Al Thani, the son of Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar.

Kasia Al Thani
Sheikha
Born	(1976-10-02)2 October 1976 Kraków
Died	29 May 2022(2022-05-29) (aged 45) Marbella
Burial	Córdoba Province
Spouse	Abdelaziz bin Khalifa Al Thani ​ ​ (m. 2004; sep. 2012)​
Issue	Malak bint Abdulaziz bin Khalifa Al-Thani Sheikha Yasmine bint Abdulaziz bin Khalifa Al-Thani Sheikha Reem bint Abdulaziz bin Khalifa Al-Thani
House	Thani (by marriage)
Religion	Islam

Biography

She was born as Kasia Gallanio^{[citation needed]} in Kraków, Poland,^[3] but grew up in Los Angeles, California, United States.^[4] 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.^[5] In 2004, she became his third wife.^[6] 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,^[1] which went into voluntary liquidation in 2010.^[7]

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.^[8] 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.^[2] In April 2018, she joined the FC Martigues business team.^[9][3] She resided in Marbella, Spain, where she was found dead of an apparent drug overdose on 29 May 2022.^[2] She was buried by the arabic rite in an undisclosed town in Córdoba.^[10]