An international team of codebreakers said Wednesday they have found and deciphered the long-lost secret letters of 16th-century monarch Mary, Queen of Scots, one of the most argued-over figures in British history.
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Mary was beheaded in 1587 after being found guilty of plotting to assassinate Elizabeth I, marking the end of a dramatic life since portrayed in numerous movies and books. The trio were trawling through the digitized archive of France’s national library, known as the BnF, when they stumbled onto enciphered documents labelled as being from Italy in the first half of the 16th century.
Some historians believe it was Walsingham who later “entrapped” Mary in 1586 into supporting the foiled Babington Plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I, Lasry said. Lasry said he could not help but feel empathy for the queen “because it’s a tragedy — you know she’s going to be executed”.Historians praised both the code breaking and historical research of the trio, expressing keenness to get stuck into the letters.
Steven Reid, a Scottish history expert at Glasgow University, said it was “the largest discovery of new Marian evidence in the modern era”.
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