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The Secret Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots Finally Decoded

Season 22 Episode 9 | 1m 53s

After months of working on mysterious encrypted letters, Elizabeth’s codebreakers begin to suspect that the messages were written by none other than Mary, Queen of Scots, during one of the most critical moments of her imprisonment.

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