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Role: Qatar Racing Club chairman Born in September 1986, Khalid is the son of Father Emir Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa with his third wife Sheikha Noora Bint Khalid Al-Thani.

Another lesser-known UAE royal has turned up touting business in Africa, with RAK ruling family member Sheikh Ahmed Bin Faisal Al-Qassimi signing deals to develop cable manufacturing and smart electricity meter plants in Zimbabwe and an investment agreement in Uganda.

Sayyid Ali Bin Ghalib Al-Said will compete for the first time at the event in France this September and may be joined by his brother Sayyid Loay, who is still working his way through the qualification process

Khalid Bin Salman held talks with defence minister Admiral Dong Jun and Central Military Commission vice-chairman Zhang Youxia in the Chinese capital on 25 June.

The health of Saudi Arabia’s King Salman is widely believed to have deteriorated, leaving the ambitious Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman closer than ever to a formal assumption of power. Meanwhile, the heir apparent appears to be negotiating new regional alignments, notably with Kuwait.

GSN’s new series profiling Qatar’s Al-Thanis and the emirate’s current ruling group naturally starts with Emir Sheikh Tamim, who in the past decade has charted a course through sometimes difficult waters to make Doha an apparently indispensable energy supplier and diplomatic partner for a wide variety of states.

Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Bin Jassim Al-Thani was appointed as foreign affairs minister in early 2016 and given the additional role of prime minister in March 2023, replacing Sheikh Khalid Bin Khalifa Bin Abdelaziz Al-Thani as PM. 

The recently-appointed Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah held talks in Jeddah on 11 June with his Saudi counterpart Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, in the latest of a wave of bilateral meetings involving senior figures from the neighbouring countries.

Abu Dhabi Deputy Ruler Sheikh Tahnoun Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan held talks with US national security advisor Jake Sullivan and former president Barack Obama in Washington on 5 June, before travelling to Seattle to meet senior Microsoft figures.

Sheikh Hamad Bin Abdullah Al-Thani is engaged in legal disputes with Swiss art dealer Phoenix Ancient Art over alleged fake art works, with cases in the London and New York courts.

Ajman Ruler Sheikh Humaid Bin Rashid Al-Nuaimi named Marwan Obaid Al-Mehairi as the new director general of the Emiri Court in late May, among a number of other personnel changes at the Ajman authorities.

Kuwait's new heir apparent Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah is the first person from the ruling family’s Hamad branch to be named crown prince, ending the duopoly of the Jaber and Salem branches.

Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman postponed a visit to Japan at the last minute due to concerns around King Salman’s health, but then sought to reassure the public about his father’s condition at the weekly cabinet meeting.

Prince Turki Bin Miqrin is reportedly set to take delivery of the world’s largest sportfishing yacht, the $70m, 52-metre Special One, which is undergoing sea trials in the North Sea.

President Ebrahim Raisi, foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and other officials were killed when the helicopter they were travelling in crashed in poor weather in East Azerbaijan province on 19 May. New presidential elections are due to take place within 50 days, amid other major questions for Iran’s political-religious elite.