[2] He went abroad to study and found a place as chamberlain at the Royal Court of the Kingdom of Württemberg, where he became the favorite of the King, who had had several previous favourites.

In 1906, Charles, Freiherr Woodcock-Savage, published A Lady in Waiting: Being extracts from the diary of Julie de Chesnil, sometime lady-in-waiting to her Majesty, Queen Marie Antoinette (New York: D. Appleton and Company).

The introduction gives a circumstantial account of the yellowed pages found locked in the secret drawer of a Louis Seize cabinet sold at the auction house of Hôtel Drouot and bought by the translator's dear friend from Paris days, an aesthete, who gives permission to publish.

On 14 June 1894, three years after the death of the King, Charles married a widow, Henrietta Knebel Staples, with four sons.

On 19 June 1897, all of her sons (Joseph, Harry, Herbert, and Leslie Curtis) legally changed their last names to Savage.