Mary Stuart's mysterious letters from prison have been deciphered: scientists have revealed what was in them

An international team of cryptographers has cracked the code in the mysterious letters of Mary, Queen of Scots. She also

known as Mary Stuart.She wrote them while she was imprisoned from 1578 and 1584 on the orders of her cousin Elizabeth I, Queen of England. It is noteworthy that the letters she received were also encrypted in a similar way.

According to the statement, a group of internationalcryptographers “stumbled upon” mysterious texts while studying the archives of the National Library of France in Paris. Using computer technology, as well as manually comparing the texts of other historical manuscripts, experts deciphered a total of 57 letters, 50 of which were previously unknown to historians. According to the study, scientists also successfully identified symbols that represented specific names, places and dates.

Mary Stuart went to prison due to suspicionin the Babington plot to assassinate Elizabeth I. She wrote most often to Michel de Castelnau de Movisier, the French ambassador to England, who supported Catholics but not Protestants. Let us remember that today Protestantism in Great Britain is the largest denomination of Christianity in the country. According to the Pew Research Center, in 2010 there were 33.82 million Protestants living in the UK, who made up 54.5% of the country's population.

According to the study, Maria used verbsand adverbs in the feminine form and often mentioned the name "Walsingham" or Sir Francis Walsingham, who was Queen Elizabeth's chief secretary. She wrote that she did not trust him.

Maria's correspondence also included details about howhow her health deteriorated during her imprisonment, the poor living conditions in prison and details of her ongoing negotiations with Queen Elizabeth I to have her released from prison. In addition, the Queen of Scots wrote of her dislike of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester and Elizabeth's favorite. In her letters, she lamented the kidnapping of her son James (the future King James I of England) in August 1582 and wrote that “France abandoned them.”

In total, experts transcribed about 50,000 words of text.

In 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots, was beheaded for treason. she was 44 years old.

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