{"id":185186,"date":"2025-06-15T01:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T01:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/185186\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T01:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T01:52:09","slug":"prince-williams-friend-sunjay-kapur-dead-at-53-after-allegedly-swallowing-bee-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/185186\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William\u2019s friend Sunjay Kapur dead at 53 after allegedly swallowing bee (report)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"FM2SKECNE5CMPNZRXA2RXSXD3Y\">Sunjay Kapur, a prominent Indian businessman, died on Thursday after collapsing during a polo match in Windsor, England. He was 53.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"COUK7NJPM5HBTC2755WSWYZ3MI\">His cause of death was a \u201csudden heart attack\u201d as Sona Comstar, an automotive component company where Kapur was chairperson, wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sonacomstar\/status\/1933375168946044967\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sonacomstar\/status\/1933375168946044967\">statement<\/a> on X. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"4FZVXCSTYFB3TFDU4PE5EXUDEI\">Per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2025\/06\/13\/billionaire-friend-of-prince-of-wales-dies-swallowing-bee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Telegraph<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/prince-williams-billionaire-pal-dies-35386133\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Mirror<\/a>, Kapur reportedly swallowed a bee during the match, which potentially sent him into anaphylactic shock and triggered his heart attack. A witness told The Telegraph that they heard Kapur say \u201cI\u2019ve swallowed something\u201d ahead of his collapse. <\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/N2WOY764RBHJTK5MKJIQ7IZZXQ.jpg\"  fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Bhopal Pataudi Polo Cup 2014\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"article__image-content\" height=\"600\" width=\"300\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__mm-image-caption-text\">Sunjay Kapur during Bhopal Pataudi Polo Cup 2014 at the Jaipur Polo ground on October 26, 2014 in New Delhi, India. (Photo by Raajessh Kashyap\/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)Hindustan Times via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"COIR2ZZ3EZB5PHKLWIF2GMFFSI\">Kapur was an avid polo player and also the owner of the Aureus polo team. However, at the time of his death, he was playing a match on Guards Polo Club\u2019s Smith Lawn, as the club revealed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DK1ne9osEBs\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DK1ne9osEBs\/?hl=en\">Instagram<\/a>. Guard\u2019s Polo Club has very close ties to the royal family. In fact, Kapur often played with members of the British royal family, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/us-news\/2022\/12\/prince-william-kate-middleton-arrive-in-boston-to-showcase-youthful-uk-monarchy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/us-news\/2022\/12\/prince-william-kate-middleton-arrive-in-boston-to-showcase-youthful-uk-monarchy.html\">Prince William<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"VIV7YGHL7RG4DFNPR3IDHZZ2FQ\">Kapur was previously married to Bollywood star Karisma Kapoor from 2003 to 2016. They welcomed two children together, daughter Samaira, 20, and son Kiaan, 14. Following their split, Kapur wed model Priya Sachdev in 2017. They shared a son, Azarias, 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"XRELNUV7HNEKPFP6I6NYPTLUCI\">Hours before his death, Kapur paid tribute to those killed during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/us-news\/2025\/06\/air-india-plane-crashes-on-london-bound-flight-with-more-than-240-people.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/us-news\/2025\/06\/air-india-plane-crashes-on-london-bound-flight-with-more-than-240-people.html\">Air India crash<\/a> that morning. \u201cTerrible news of the tragic Air India crash in Ahmedabad. My thoughts and prayers are with all the families affected. May they find strength in this difficult hour,\u201d he wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sunjaykapur\/status\/1933127523648307353\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sunjaykapur\/status\/1933127523648307353\">X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"CYYEO75L6RGETHHNR7UPJLP2KA\">Prince William has not publicly commented on Kapur\u2019s death. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunjay Kapur, a prominent Indian businessman, died on Thursday after collapsing during a polo match in Windsor, England.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[17943,7709,7714,7713,533,2832,532,2831,7710,519,17944,7711,7712],"class_list":{"0":"post-185186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-bestof","9":"tag-british-royal-family","10":"tag-catherine","11":"tag-catherine-middleton","12":"tag-kate-middleton","13":"tag-prince-of-wales","14":"tag-prince-william","15":"tag-princess-of-wales","16":"tag-royal-families","17":"tag-royal-family","18":"tag-topix","19":"tag-uk-royal-family","20":"tag-william"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185186","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=185186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}