And then, as you rightly said, even the code that they used was not a very secure one.

So you are involved in a plot, you write about it in a code which is not very safe.

This shows that she was less careful at the time and more desperate probably.

The Tudor's Dynasty podcast.

If you follow the show on social media, you likely saw within the last week a big

announcement about some lost Mary Queen of Scott's letters.

While on today's show, historian and friend of the show, Mel Taylor, had the privilege

of talking to Dr. George Lassery,

who together with his colleagues Norbert Bierman, a professor of music and a pianist,

and Satoshi Tomakio, an astrophysicist, found in analyzed letters written by Mary Queen of Scots

in code between the years 1578 and 1584.

Now, despite Walsingham's network of spies and back channels determined to expose Mary Stewart's information network, Mary's clandestine letters to Castlelow remained undiscovered for 10 years.

It was not until 1583 that Walsingham managed to plant a mole in Casinoles Embassy in London.

These letters have been presumed lost for 436 years.

Until now.

And now I turn it over to Mel Taylor and Dr. George Lassery.

Welcome to Tudor's Dynasty.

I've spent some fantastic times delving into your paper over the last few days and also your PowerPoint presentation which I found very useful.

And how was it the three of you, you and Professor Berman and your lovely astrophysicist, Satoshi, is it Tomokio?

Yes, Tokyo. How did you stumble on these lost letters?

Yeah, so it's a project, I mean, the multiple project with the same purpose that we

are involved in in the last something like 10 years.

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