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Boy Capel
Captain Arthur Edward "Boy" Capel CBE〔''Burke's Landed Gentry'' (18th and 19th editions) and ''The Complete Peerage'' give his correct forenames.〕 (1881 – 22 December 1919) was an English polo player, possibly best-remembered for being a lover and muse of fashion designer Coco Chanel. ==Biography== Born in Brighton, Sussex, England, Capel was the son of Arthur Joseph Capel, a British shipping merchant, and his French-born wife, the former Berthe Andrée A. E. Lorin (1856-1902). He had three sisters: Marie Henriette Teresia Capel; Mary Josephine Lawrence Edith Capel; and Berthe Isabelle Susanna Flora Capel (married Sir Herman Alfred de Stern, Baron Michelham). In the obituary of one of Capel's daughters, he was described as "an intellectual, politician, tycoon, polo-player and the dashing lover and sponsor of the fashion designer Coco Chanel".〔Lady Hutchinson, obituary, ''Daily Telegraph'', 4 October 2006. According to that obituary, Capel was a Roman Catholic and his wife had to convert to Catholicism to marry him, and her two daughters by him were raised as Catholics. ()〕 There are hints in biographies of Chanel about Capel's reputed (illegitimate) connections with the Capel Earls of Essex but no connection has been established: his paternal family originated in Ireland.〔http://www.eclecticstyleblog.com/identified-the-bust-on-coco-chanels-mantelpiece/ Details of family background.〕 He was already an apparently wealthy self-made man by 1909. An alumnus of Beaumont College, Capel was killed in an auto crash on Monday 22 December 1919,〔 allegedly en route to a Christmas rendezvous with Chanel. He was buried with full military honours at Fréjus Cathedral on 24 December 1919.〔''The Times'', 24 December 1919, p. 10: "Lord Rosslyn, telegraphing last night from St. Raphael, stated that Captain Arthur Capel, who was killed in an automobile crash on Monday, is being buried today at 2.30 p.m. at Frejus with full military honours".〕
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