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Discover the untold story of Mary, Queen of Scots - a woman who ruled kingdoms, loved dangerously, and died on a scaffold built by forged letters and intercepted codes. For four centuries, history has called her a traitor. But what if the evidence against her was fabricated?
In this episode, we unravel one of history's most devastating betrayals: a conspiracy orchestrated not by Mary, but against her. We follow the paper trail from the controversial Casket Letters - documents that mysteriously disappeared yet survived as "proof" of her guilt - to the Babington Plot, where Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth I's spymaster, intercepted Mary's every letter, broke her ciphers, and forged evidence to ensure her conviction.
Born a queen at six days old, Mary inherited Scotland, ruled France, and claimed England. But ...