Jacqueline Harriet "Cockie" Alexander

She had an affair with Bror Blixon for over five years.

She had brown eyes.

She lived for some time in Kenya having arrived with her soldier-settler husband in 1919. She had a "perpetual girlish air". " Her final request would be an explicit request to be late for her own funeral and that the reading should be that of Jesus's turning the water into wine."

"Her girlishness was one of beguiling, though utterly misplaced, air of innocence. When on safari with the prince of Wales she so charmed him wih her fascination with his Crichton ice-making machine, never before seen in Kenya, that he asked her, even though she had never fired a shot, to take a gun. When he returned to England he sent her an ice making machine."

"Within a few months of arriving in Kenya with her husband, Ben Birkbeck, Cockie had gone with him on one of Bror Blixen's safaris. Bror, like many white hunters, made a habit of trying to seduce the women he led into the bush, especially those trembling on their first safari, feeling a hairbreadth from moral danger at every turn. His rewassuring air of experience and control proved almost irresistible. Cockie fell ou tof her husband's arms and into Bror's, where she had been ever since.

"Bror had insisted that Tania divorce him a couple of years earlier so that he might marry Cockie. Tania had agreed, believing that Denys Finch Hatton would marry her. He had not so far done so. The fact that Bror and Cockie had been equally slow to reach the altar, or rather the register office, being divorces, provided Tania with little consolation. Cockie was stil there, always about to marry Bror and become the next Baroness Blixen in Tania's place."

The Bolter by Frances Osborne