On arrival *thelwald found her in company with her father Ordgar, whom she completely controlled by her personality, playing at chess, which they had learned from the Danes. *thelwald instead took *lfthryth for his own wife and married her in about 956. *thelwald died in 962, and Dunstan suspected that he was murdered by his wife *lfthryth who thereafter, according to Dunstan, seduced King Edgar and murdered his son Prince Edward the Martyr in order to pave the way for the crowning of her son *thelred as king.
Dunstan
King Edgar