Edith Swan-Neck

Lady Edith Swan-Neck was the wife of King Harold. She and her mother-in-law Countess Gytha, falsely identified Harold's body on the battlefields of Hastings on 14 October 1066. This act allowed her husband to be "reborn" as Hereward the Wake, a formidable Saxon guerrilla warrior. (PROSE: The Real Hereward)