Mary, Queen of Scots' hidden letters decoded after almost 500 years

Dozens of documents, sent between 1579 and 1584, were discovered in the national library of France. For centuries, the 55 documents were believed to have been lost, but all this time they had been hiding in plain sight, wrongly labelled. Now, they have been hailed as the most significant discovery about Mary, Queen of Scots’, tumultuous life in at least a century.   Mary was crowned Queen of Scotland in 1542 at the age of nine months, and at 16, she was crowned Queen of France. However, she sp