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Who really wrote Elizabeth I’s angriest letter? New research reveals a hidden hand

On February 10 1586, Elizabeth I wrote one of her most famous letters: a furious rebuke to her favourite, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester. She sharply reprimanded him for disobeying her.

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Michael Byrne obituary

Character actor whose decades-long career encompassed the National Theatre, war films and Coronation Street

The Guardian - UK

Isabelle Huppert to headline 2026 Adelaide festival in ‘astounding’ role as Mary, Queen of Scots

The French screen and stage legend will star in Mary Said What She Said, a one-woman show created by late theatre luminary Robert Wilson, in March

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Alba playwright puts his money where his mouth with Fringe show

JACK Byrne is so determined to keep Scottish working-class voices on stage at the Edinburgh Fringe that he has sunk his savings into a new play.

The National (Scotland)

Mary Said What She Said review – Isabelle Huppert dazzles in a one-woman tour de force

The final hours of Mary, Queen of Scots are enacted with hypnotic precision in Robert Wilson’s collaboration with Théâtre de la Ville–Paris

The Guardian - UK

Isabelle Huppert: ‘I was never the woman behind the man… the only place I could take was the main place’

As she prepares to play Mary, Queen of Scots, the French actor talks about her extraordinary career, and why she’d love to make a film in the UK – or play a Marvel villain

The Guardian - UK

LPO/Gardner at the Royal Festival Hall: Brett Dean’s premiere showed a right royal row (again)

This new work by the orchestra’s composer-in-residence oscillated between the dramatic and the contemplative

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Great Scot! French researchers stumble upon Queen Mary's lost letters

An international team of codebreakers say they have found and deciphered the long-lost secret letters of 16th-century monarch Mary, Queen of Scots. The documents were found mislabelled in the digital archive of the French national library.

Radio France Internationale

3 amateur codebreakers set out to decrypt old letters. They uncovered royal history

Cryptologists found and decoded over 50 long-lost letters that Mary, Queen of Scots wrote during her time in captivity. A historian calls them the most important new findings about her in 100 years.

WEKU

Codebreakers uncover secrets of Mary Queen of Scots lost letters

Experts said the codebreakers' work is the most significant discovery about Mary for 100 years.

Daily Record

Codebreakers Find, Decipher Lost Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots

An international team of codebreakers said Wednesday they have found and deciphered the long lost secret letters of 16th-century monarch Mary, Queen of Scots, one of the most argued-over figures in British history. The long-rumored missing letters, which were found mislabeled in the digital archive of a French library, were…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Secret messages from Mary Queen of Scots’ prison letters finally decoded

Experts said the codebreakers’ work is the most significant discovery about Mary for 100 years

The Independent UK

Mary, Queen of Scots prison letters finally decoded

Experts say codebreakers’ discovery is most significant about royal for more than a century

The Guardian - UK

Codebreakers crack secrets of Mary Queen of Scots’ lost letters

The letters date from 1578 to 1584, a few years before Mary’s beheading 436 years ago.

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Podcast: Theatre Review (David Tennant in Good & Mary at Hampstead Theatre)

David Tennant in ‘Good’ at the Harold Pinter Theatre and why it’s an important watch.

The Guardian - UK

Mary review – Douglas Henshall’s courtier defends a Queen in quick-fire debate

Rona Munro’s engaging debate drama has some thrilling exchanges as three characters argue the case for and against Mary Queen of Scots

Evening Standard

Mary at Hampstead Theatre review: Rona Munro’s queen’s tale utterly fails to spark

This play about Mary Stuart draws juicy contemporary parallels but this talky and monotonous production is less than the sum of its parts

The National (Scotland)

New play provides fresh perspective on the history of the Scottish aristocracy

WHEN Scottish playwright Rona Munro began writing James IV: Queen Of The Fight – the fourth on her series of “James Plays” about the kings…

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'Amazing' Glasgow nurse keeping families going with compassion and kindness

Yvonne is also a lecturer at Glasgow Caledonian University, and has been inspiring the next generation of heart failure specialist nurses and professionals across the UK for 20 years.

The Canberra Times

The Queen and Me: Canberrans' close encounters with the monarch

The new exhibition The Queen and Me reveals Canberrans' first-hand accounts of meeting Queen Elizabeth II over her 70-year reign.

Daily Record

Mary Queen of Scots: A look back at how Scotland's most famous queen met her end 435 years ago

February 8 marks the anniversary of the Scottish Queen's execution in 1587.

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