for those that want a reference to the book cited in the article.
Mary was really a clueless dope very often. She should have allowed Knox to think he had converted her and nominally become a Protestant. If Paris was worth a mass than Edinburgh was worth a baptism. Knox as an ally and confederate would have been a powerful pillar of support. Over the long haul, even if Mary had to fly the coop from Scotland as a Princess converted to the reforming faith she would have been a guest not a potential focus of sedition in England. In passing, have there have been any more complete set of fools in history than the Catholic gentry who involved themselves in such idiocies as the Babington plot.