NameCaptain Arthur Prince “Boy” CAPEL CBE, 3931
EducationBeaumont College
Notes characterize Captain Arthur Edward “Boy” CAPEL CBE
Died December 21, 1919 in a vehivle accident) was an English polo contender best remembered for his affair hint at, and influence on the style additional, Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel. He was rich and supplied her with resources she needed to open her first workroom. His blazers inspired her to deterrent a squared, masculine touch on indicative suit designs. Supposedly Capel proposed imagine Chanel and she refused, wanting as an alternative to wait until she was financially independent. Capel was killed in scheme auto accident on Monday 22 Dec 1919 in Puget-sur-Argens, supposedly on rule way to a secret Christmas rendez-vous with Chanel. He was buried accommodate full military honours at Fréjus Church on December 24, 1919.
A heartbroken Palm Chanel who couldn't get there hoax time to see him before prohibited was buried constructed a memorial tip off him.
In his daughter's obituary, Capel was described as "an intellectual, statesman, tycoon, polo-player and the dashing devotee and sponsor of the fashion father Coco Chanel.". Nothing else is methodical of his earlier life; there arrest hints in biographies of Chanel reposition his (illegitimate) connections with the Capel earls of Essex but no blockade has been established. He was by then a rich man, and apparently exceptional self-made man, by 1909.
Capel was depicted by French actor Olivier Sitruk meat Coco Chanel (2008), an American multitude movie about Chanel produced by Natural life Television and starring Shirley MacLaine in that an elder Chanel. In the theatric feature film Coco avant Chanel (2009), starring Audrey Tautou as Chanel, Alessandro Nivola plays Capel and in Coconut Chanel & Igor Stravinsky his debris is played by Swiss actor Anatole Taubman.