In 1780, after thirteen years of marriage, and reported affairs on both sides, his parents parted permanently.

Charles' wife, Princess Frederica Caroline of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, also died earlier in 1791.

[7] Louisa was a daughter of John Brunton, a grocer who later became an actor and manager of the Norwich Theatre.

[8][9] Together, they were the parents of:[4] Lord Craven mostly resided at Coombe Abbey, near Coventry in Warwickshire and occasionally at Hamstead Marshall in Berkshire.

He is not entirely forgotten – Harriette Wilson begins her famous memoir, "I shall not say why and how I became, at the age of fifteen, the mistress of the Earl of Craven.