The rarely performed Mary, Queen of Scots (1973) made its London debut at ENO’s Coliseum. The Opera followed Mary’s short-lived reign as Scottish queen. Something of a synthesis between Shakespearean ...

Since childhood, Mary Stuart had enjoyed writing in cipher. Later in life, as Queen of Scots and a prisoner in England for nearly 19 years, the skill became essential to her survival. From an early ...

After working for some time on decoding mysterious encrypted letters, the codebreakers realize that the ciphered messages might be written by Mary Stuart, the Queen of Scots herself, during a critical ...

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One of Scotland’s most cherished treasures, a rare French silver casket believed to have been owned by Mary, Queen of Scots, has gone on display at Aberdeen Art Gallery. This iconic piece of ...

See how secret letters written by Mary, Queen of Scots, were finally decoded.

This movie explores the turbulent life of the charismatic Mary Stuart (Saoirse Ronan). Queen of France at 16 and widowed at 18, Mary defies pressure to remarry. Instead, she returns to her native ...

Tracing the extraordinary story of the amateur codebreakers who collaborated across continents to decipher a mysterious cache of coded letters which were discovered to be from Mary, Queen of Scots.

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The United Kingdom is pulling out all the stops between June 2 and 5, 2022, to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee, marking her 70th year on the throne—the longest reign for any British ...

Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth is back on Broadway in “The Queen of Versailles,” a new musical by Stephen Schwartz now in previews at the St. James Theatre. The show, based on the 2012 ...