Queen of Scots. The 57 secret letters, from Mary Stuart to the French ambassador to England between 1578 and 1584, were written in an elaborate code. The findings come 436 years after Mary’s ...

Mary Stuart, who was first in line to succeed Queen Elizabeth I of England, wrote the letters during nearly two decades of imprisonment by Elizabeth that led to her beheading 436 years ago ...

Mary Stuart, who was Catholic, wrote the coded letters from 1578 to 1584 while she was imprisoned in England due to the perceived threat she posed to her Protestant cousin Queen Elizabeth I.

Queen of Scots, for 100 years." "The letters show definitively that Mary, during the years of her captivity in England ... closely observed and actively involved herself in political affairs in ...

The team discovered that the letters had been written by Mary, Queen of Scots, to trusted allies during her imprisonment in England by Queen Elizabeth I (her cousin)—and most were previously ...

coded letters written by Mary Stuart (aka Mary, Queen of Scots) while she was imprisoned in England. These letters had been considered lost to time and were only discovered after George Lasry (a ...

The 57 letters, written between 1578 and 1584 ... not only as a potential champion for their faith but as England’s legitimate queen: Elizabeth was the child of King Henry VIII’s second ...

as you have done in your last two letters, of your proceedings on this new offer and negotiations for my freedom … I have written to the queen of England as you have advised me, and by word of ...

Mary Stuart was crowned queen of Scotland just six days after ... about supposed schemes to usurp the throne of England. Some of the letters bring up the idea of bribing her enemies to change ...