"This is a truly exciting discovery… We have broken secret codes from kings and queens previously, and they're very ...

They were, they found, not Italian texts at all. Instead, they were part of the secret prison correspondence of Mary, Queen of Scots, whose tragic life and tangled role in the lethal dynastic and ...

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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. However, despite ...

Mary, Queen of Scots was beheaded for treason in the Great Hall of Fotheringhay Castle in England by order of her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, on this day in history, Feb. 8, 1587. The Queen of ...

The rivalry between Mary, Queen of Scots, and Queen Elizabeth I has been depicted in films for over a century. Mary Stuart inherited the throne as a baby and was later executed by Elizabeth I ...

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 ...

On the face of it, Katharine Hepburn would seem to be the wrong choice for the character of the Scots queen. She is nowhere as hard as she should be, she nowhere shows the strength of courage and ...