 In 1522, he was in attendance when King Henry met the Emperor Charles V between Dover and Canterbury.His modern biographer, James Ross, considers the 14th Earl "an incompetent wastrel".In 1523, when he was twenty-four years of age, the King commanded him, through Cardinal Wolsey, to discharge his household and live with his father-in-law, the Duke of Norfolk, and demean himself lovingly towards his wife.