Charles' fortunes improved in 1540, when his sister Katherine Howard became King Henry VIII's fifth wife.
Gareth Russell writes:Charles Howard received a few properties from the king, £100 a year, a licence to import 1,000 tons of Gascon wine and French timber, and a place as a gentleman of the Privy Chamber.
But in comparison to the treasures that were heaped upon them in popular legend, the Howards were left wanting.
[2] Gareth Russell writes:Charles Howard seems to have had the Howard charisma seeping out of his fingertips, and if he was not quite the stuff of the council chamber, he at least fitted in perfectly to the merrymaking routine that dominated the court in the latter half of 1540.
[4]One seventeenth-century account states that he was killed fighting in France three years after his rustication in 1541.