Little Doha

By 2006, Qatari interests owned £1 billion of property in London, and a quarter of Mayfair's 279 acres.

As well as housing and commercial property, they own two of the area's most well-known luxury hotels, The Connaught and Claridge's.

[3] Dudley House on Park Lane was bought in 2006 by the Bahamian-based company Bristol Isles Ltd for £37 million[5] and restored by Hamad bin Abdullah Al-Thani, a cousin of the Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.

[8] Jaber Al Thani's British business interests are run from 67 Brook Street in Mayfair.

[2] In 1997 Lombard House on Curzon Street was bought by the deputy prime minister of Qatar, Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Thani for £17 million.