All this week, Qatar's emir, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, has been receiving condolences from the country's leading families and foreign dignitaries at his palace in Lusail, Doha, following the death last Sunday of his father, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, who had handed him the throne in 2013.
While the Father Emir's death has no dynastic consequences, it does have major repercussions for the luxury industry to which he had devoted himself since his abdication. Over 13 years, the former monarch privately
