The visit was the outcome of a quarrel between father and son over Robert Turold's announcement about his wife's previous marriage.

Charles was shocked by his uncle's decision to make the story public, and had wandered about the cliffs until dark trying to decide what to do.

Ultimately he returned home and asked his father to use his influence with his brother to keep the secret in the family.

His father called him a fool for suggesting such a thing, declined to offend his brother or blast his own prospects by such damned quixotic nonsense.
On this Charles had announced his intention of seeing his uncle and telling him he would leave England immediately and forever unless the scandal was kept quiet.

That made his father angry, and they quarrelled violently.