She was a beautiful English princess who married one of Europe's most powerful monarchs and dazzled subjects with her charity and charm. Now an international team of scientists say they think they've found the body of Princess Eadgyth (pronounced Edith) - a 10th-century noblewoman who has been compared to Princess Diana. “She was a very, very popular person,” said Mark Horton, an archeology professor at Bristol University in western England. “She was sort of the Diana of her day if you like - pretty and full of good works.” Horton is one of a team of experts working to verify the identity of some bones found bundled in silk at Magdeburg Cathedral in Germany. Should the skeleton be positively identified as Eadgyth's, it would be oldest remains of any English royal discovered so far. The skeleton was uncovered as part of a wider research project into Magdeburg Cathedral, about 90 miles west of Berlin. Eadgyth grew up at the dawn of the 10th century, a period during which her half brother King Athelstan extended his rule over all of England.
