Fearing that Darnley was plotting a coup d’état, Mary went to Glasgow on her own initiative. But she was deceitfully encouraged by Bothwell and Huntly, who escorted her and provided her bodyguards on the first stage of her journey. They supported her plan to confront Darnley and bring him back to Edinburgh. Of course they did, because Mary had unwittingly played into the hands of her conspiring lords. She was about to become the instrument whereby Morton would be revenged on her husband for his treachery in the Rizzio plot.
