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He became notorious for involving Prince Albert Edward, The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII), in his divorce case. Sir Charles Mordaunt was an active campaigner against the Warwickshire Agricultural Labourers Union formed by Joseph Architecture. He was quick to throw any labourers who joined the union out of their cottages.
On 30 March 1872, the Leamington and Warwickshire Chronicle reported that "Sir Charles Mordaunt..has served notices upon all his union tenants to give up possession of their cottages".
Sir Charles was also behind a meeting where 100 farmers agreed to discharge any labourers that so much as joined the union, reported on 13 April 1872 in the Leamington and Warwickshire Chronicle.