Markham - 1964 - Pat had given up her property at Karen, forced to move Tana, her lioness, away from Ngong where farmers had been unhappy when the lioness came into season every six weeks, calling all the males in the district. The result was that Enid built Kenmare Lodge (named at Independence) at Leopard Rock, for Pat where she could rehabilitate Tana, with a 50 mile radius where the lioness could mate and roam without disturbing human life. But for Ted Goss, a young game ranger, Pat was entirely isolated.

Sydney Morning Herald 19 July 2019: A champion swimmer, Frank would compete in the 1952 Olympics. He was also an indefatigable ladies’ man. When, a few years later, Pat fell in love with Count Aymon de Roussy de Sales, Enid hired a private detective to allow for a divorce but the female detective was soon having an affair with Frank and would not give evidence. But they did divorce and Pat married Aymon in New York. In the mid-fifties, by then divorced from Aymon, Pat joined her Cavendish brother Caryll (who had become 7th Lord Waterpark) in Kenya. There she could have her animals, including her chimp, Joseph. An admirer gave her a lion cub, Tana, who became the love of Pat's life. Tana was, to Pat, "the symbol of courage, the emblem of England, the hero of tribal folklore." The Masai were so impressed that they approached Pat to intervene with the Queen over Kenyan independence. "Does Queen not know that you live with a lion?"

Rory and Enid came to stay. She, Pat and Joseph shared the same doctor. Enid and Joseph would paint together. The oddities and inconsistencies that life bestows were magnified with Pat. She fell in love with the great white hunter, Stan Lawrence Brown, who, as she put it "made his life out of killing animals and I only wanted to save them." And yet their affair was to last until 1968 when (with Tana set free like Joy Adamson's Elsa) she had to move to South Africa to escape the instability of Kenya and provide a better climate for Enid. She also had to give Joseph away. At the bidding of her friend Beryl Markham, who trained her racehorses, Enid bought Broadlands in Somerset West, Cape Province. The old Cape Dutch/English Colonial house would be their last home. In 1970, fifteen years after their divorce, at the urging of her mother and brothers, Pat remarried Frank in Kenya. Although he regularly visited, an affectionate union endured from afar and he continued to live in Sydney.

Pat took over from the feisty Markham and assumed, with remarkable success, the training of Enid’s horses. In partnership with Frank, and the counsel of the leading Australian trainer of his generation, TJ Smith, and a succession of brilliant vets, she imported the best horses from Australia and became one of South Africa’s leading breeders and trainers and came close to a world record for runners to winners.

From the 1990’s, she devoted herself to the care of her animals. By 2003, she was feeding 65 dogs and 14 cats. There were also horses, donkeys, sheep, pigs, poultry, macaws – many wondered in and out of the house. Pat’s second volume of memoirs celebrated her racing career and the last great love of her life ­­– Kalu, a rescued chimpanzee. As she reached her eighties, Kalu and her beloved baboons (32 of them) were settled near the house and the Animal Care Facility and the Cavendish O’Neill Animal Trust were established to ensure their welfare in her wake.

Despite the fact that her fortune was spent and Broadlands sold(she was allowed to remain in the house for life), the inevitable headlines followed ‘Olympic husband disinherited for a chimpanzee’. Six dogs, two of them Great Danes, and two cats continued to share her bed. As the visiting Frank, who survives his wife, observed, there was no room for him.