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Robin Dalton, now aged 96, has lived an extraordinary life—as a TV performer, spy, literary agent, film producer and author. But it's her love life that's in the spotlight this time A surprising, lively and fun memoir of love, relationships and a young woman's sexual liberation One Leg Over is a vibrant account of a colourful life and tells of Robin's affairs with, among others, David, Marquis of Milford Haven, Prince Philip's best friend and best man At the age of 17 Robin was briefly married to an older man, in Sydney. Their divorce bumped the war off the front page of a Sydney newspaper with the headline 'Society Disgrace' An extract to give a sense of Robin Dalton's style: 'During the five months duration (weekends only) of my marriage I did not even learn what an orgasm was. Neither did I learn this from the American servicemen with whom I exultingly tripped through the first years of our Pacific War. It took the British Navy, our second wave of war time visiting servicemen, to teach me this.' Robin left behind WWII Sydney to fly to London at a time when flight was reserved for special military personnel, and went on to develop friendships with Frank Sinatra, Noel Coward, Prince Philip, Lord Mountbatten, Edward and Wallis Simpson, and various kings and princes. She was also a correspondent of Jack Kennedy and T. S. Eliot Robin Dalton writes of love and heartbreak, of parties with the aristocracy and her many fiancés in this hugely entertaining memoir of a time in history more commonly associated with hardship and austerity In 2015 Text published Aunts Up the Cross in the Text Classics, as well as publishing for the first time the delightful short book Robin wrote aged eight, My Relations The publication of One Leg Over will be supported by a strong publicity and marketing campaign