Secret letters written by Mary, Queen of Scots while she was imprisoned by Elizabeth I, have been decoded for the first time in nearly 450 years, in a major historical breakthrough.
Cryptographers stumbled upon the finds while hunting for enciphered documents in the online archives of the National Library of France (Bibliotheque nationale de France.)
Most of the 57 letters were written between Mary and the French ambassador to England, Michel de Castelnau de Mauvissière, and penned while she was under house arrest at the Earl of Shrewsbury’s home in Sheffield.
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