She met the 43-year-old Rashid Bin Turki Alsaud when she was 19 but did not marry until 22. She received her Bachelor degree in International Business and Science at Schiller International University in Leysin, Switzerland where the couple had met on the Corvatsch ski slopes in Switzerland. She moved to Europe after ending her 8 years of marriage. She has lived in many different countries, including Switzerland, France, and the United States. As of 2008 she divides her time between Potomac, Maryland where she lives privately in a spacious 32,000 sf, three-story, memorabilia-filled residence and Newport, Rhode Island where Madame have summered since the age 12. She is known for her outspoken personality and lavish spending. As of 2009 she devotes her time in philanthropy and is active in various charity fund raising. She prefers to maintain and to live her life in private and she rarely gives interviews or allow any publications to be printed about her. She prefers to be alone, escaping to her 32,000 square feet of living space Palladian-Georgian style manor in the hills beyond Potomac, Maryland. She is a long-time supporter of various Endowments and Foundations, she is spotted far from home base—touring Angkor Wat, sipping Champagne at the maharajah's palace in Udaipur, trekking through St. Petersburg, even slipping semi-incognito into the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Shanghai. She is known for her outspoken personality and lavish spending. Aishwarya Al Alsaud was born on October 11th, 1979 in in Greenwich, Connecticut and is of Eurasian origin.
