Even if your backer is a noble, it takes raw stupidity to try to have your way with another noble, that is currently well liked be the king. The risks of such a behavior should have been clear from the getgo.
What kind of noble gives that order and what kind of moron storms in like that? I give to the innkeeper he might have been ill informed, that he might know she is poplular, but not exacly how much and all the details why, and that he thought that guy would handel that better. Yet still: Also a noble, popular, knows the king. He should have known those things from gossip alone. That innkeeper is still an idiot himself.