page_title: Château Woolsack
section_title: Notable guests
hierarchical_section_title: Château Woolsack / Life at the château / Notable guests
caption_attribution_description: English: Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, Duke of Westminster and Coco Chanel at the Grand National, Aintree. With them, Galloper Smith, Earl of Birkenhead
context_page_description: The Château Woolsack or Château de Woolsack or The Woolsack is a former hunting lodge located in the commune of Mimizan in the department of Landes in the Aquitaine region of south-western France. Built in 1911 on the shores of Lake Aureilhan by Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster, it is a replica in the Tudor style of the home of Rudyard Kipling - the author of The Jungle Book. It is on a site which has been listed and protected since 18 July 1978.
context_section_description: From 1924 to 1930 Coco Chanel was a close friend of the Duke and a privileged visitor to the castle where she came to revitalise herself. She was sometimes in the company of the seamstresses of her workshop to whom she offered a dream holiday in Le Pylon villa, years before the introduction of paid holidays.
  Other personalities of the interwar period followed such as: Charlie Chaplin, Salvador Dalí, Suzanne Lenglen, Lloyd George, Georges Carpentier, King Alfonso XIII of Spain, the designer Sem, and Sir Anthony Eden. Winston Churchill, who had been an intimate friend of the Duke since the Boer War, made frequent visits to Woolsack - alone or with his family. He liked to walk on the shores of the lake and sometimes set up his easel to paint. He produced twenty canvases depicting Mimizan and its surroundings.
caption: Coco Chanel with Hughes Richard Arthur Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster
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