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 she fell from power through a cascade of betrayals: her half-brother Moray turned against her, Scottish lords imprisoned her, her own son abandoned her, and Elizabeth I - the cousin she believed would help her - ordered her execution after nineteen years locked in English castles.

We'll examine the Kirk o' Field murder and ask: Did Mary truly conspire to kill her husband, Lord Darnley? We'll decode the mystery of the Casket Letters and reveal what modern historians - including scholar John Guy - have discovered about their authenticity. And we'll expose how intelligence operations, forged documents, and political power combined to manufacture guilt and destroy a woman who may have been far more strategic and intelligent than history has allowed.

This is not a story about a weak, reckless queen. This is a story about how the powerful rewrite history to justify their crimes. It's a detective mystery buried four hundred years deep, and the evidence will make you question everything you thought you knew about Mary, betrayal, and the price of challenging an empire.

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