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An international team of codebreakers said Wednesday they have found and deciphered the long lost secret letters of 16th-century monarch Mary, Queen of Scots,

Symbols discovered in messages written by Mary uncover her attempts to regain the Scottish throne and intervene in politics

Experts said the 57 letters are the most significant discovery about Mary for 100 years.

The letters, written during her English captivity, were found during a trawl of French archives.

A group of codebreakers have deciphered 57 "elaborately" coded letters of Mary, Queen of Scots, 436 years after her execution on Feb. 8, 1587.

The letters, written during her English captivity, were found during a trawl of French archives.

CODEBREAKERS have cracked the secrets of Mary, Queen of Scots’s lost letters more than 430 years after she wrote them in captivity.

Cryptologists have cracked the code on a stack of encrypted letters, and discovered that they were penned by Mary, Queen of Scots.

The messages, written while she was imprisoned by her cousin Queen Elizabeth I, were mistakenly listed as Italian texts in France’s national library.