“These new documents… show Mary to have been a shrewd and attentive analyst of international affairs,” Dr. John Guy, historian and author of Queen Of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart ...

Mary, Queen of Scots was gruesomely beheaded by order of England's Queen Elizabeth I on this day in history, Feb. 8, 1587. Mary was convicted of plotting to overthrow Elizabeth.

A trio of codebreakers has found and deciphered a treasure trove of lost letters written by Mary, Queen of Scots. The letters, written in an elaborate cipher, reveal more about Mary Stuart’s ...

Letters signed by Mary, Queen of Scots and her husband Lord Darnley urging a Highland family to keep the peace in and around Inverness are to be auctioned later. They were written almost 500 years ...

One recent example of an important historical discovery by codebreakers are letters dating back to 1578 through 1584 by Mary Stuart, the Queen of Scots in the 16th century.

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.

In 1587, after enduring 19 years of imprisonment for allegedly helping hatch a plan to murder her cousin Queen Elizabeth I, Mary, Queen of Scots was beheaded. She was only 44 .

On the 436th anniversary of her execution, a team of international codebreakers has uncovered some of the secret, coded letters written by Mary Stuart (aka Mary, Queen of Scots) while she was ...

By Ashley Strickland, CNN A trio of codebreakers has found and deciphered a treasure trove of lost letters written by Mary, Queen of Scots. The 57 secret letters, from Mary Stuart to the French ...

Lost Letters by Mary, Queen of Scots, Uncovered by Amateur Code Breakers. The messages, written while she was imprisoned by her cousin Queen Elizabeth I, were mistakenly listed as Italian texts in ...