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Emperor king’s top secret assassination letter finally decrypted after 500 years

Live Science

By Harry Baker

December 6, 2022

Researchers have finally cracked a complex code used in a top secret letter from 1547 that the Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain, Charles V, wrote when he was fearing for his life. In the encrypted letter, which was sent to one of his ambassadors in France, Charles V writes about tensions with the French king Francis I, who he thought might be plotting to assassinate him. 

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