{"id":183209,"date":"2025-06-14T07:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T07:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/183209\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T07:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T07:40:08","slug":"prince-williams-friend-dies-after-swallowing-bee-at-polo-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/183209\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William&#8217;s friend dies after swallowing bee at polo match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Williams\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/prince-williams-billionaire-pal-dies-35386133\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">longtime friend Sunjay Kapur died<\/a> on Thursday after reportedly swallowing a bee during a polo match in England.<\/p>\n<p>The billionaire businessman collapsed on the field in Windsor\u00a0after being stung in his mouth, which caused anaphylactic shock that triggered a fatal heart attack, according to the Mirror.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was full of life, laughing, joking, then gone in an instant,\u201d an insider also told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>A witness told the Telegraph he was heard saying, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2025\/06\/13\/billionaire-friend-of-prince-of-wales-dies-swallowing-bee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cI\u2019ve swallowed something.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kapur, 53, who\u2019s the ex-husband of Bollywood star Karisma Kapoor, was the chairman of the automotive technology firm Sona Comstar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are deeply saddened by the sudden demise of our Chairman, Mr. Sunjay Kapur,\u201d the company said in a statement. \u201cHe was a visionary leader whose passion, insight and dedication shaped the identity and success of our company.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A friend of Kapur also shared a statement with Telegraph Sport saying, \u201cHe will be greatly missed not only by his family and friends but the local community around his club as he employed so many people and made so many friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe didn\u2019t distinguish between his grooms or high net worth friends,\u201d they added. \u201cWhen he had a party, everyone was invited and everyone was equal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kapur was said to be a regular on the polo circuit and was often seen playing with members of the royal family, including his pal Prince William.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince Williams\u2019 longtime friend Sunjay Kapur died on Thursday after reportedly swallowing a bee during a polo match&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7714,7713,533,2832,532,2831,7710,519,75208,7711,7712],"class_list":{"0":"post-183209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-catherine","10":"tag-catherine-middleton","11":"tag-kate-middleton","12":"tag-prince-of-wales","13":"tag-prince-william","14":"tag-princess-of-wales","15":"tag-royal-families","16":"tag-royal-family","17":"tag-sunjay-kapur-death-prince-williams","18":"tag-uk-royal-family","19":"tag-william"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114680589870370375","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}