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Great Scot! French researchers stumble upon Queen Mary's lost letters

Detail from Mary, Queen of Scots, an 1885 engraving by William G. Jackman. © Wikicommons / Metropolitan Museum of Art

An international team of codebreakers say they have found and deciphered the long-lost secret letters of 16th-century monarch Mary, Queen of Scots. The documents were found mislabelled in the digital archive of the French national library.

The missing letters, which were found mislabelled in the digital archive of a French library, were hailed by historians as the most significant discovery about the Scottish queen in a century.

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