He was born a penniless orphan in St. Croix of illegitimate birth, became George Washington's right-hand man, became Treasury Secretary, caught beef with every other founding father.
With Charles' death, despite his siring of many, many illegitimate children, the crown nevertheless passed to his brother, James, Duke of York, as Charles did not have a legitimate heir.
However, as an illegitimate child, he was denied the formal schooling provided by the Church of England and would have received lessons privately, while his mother may have taught him to speak French fluently.
What was more, it soon began to result in illegitimate children born out of wedlock, a problematic issue for any future king as it raised issues about a possible succession in decades to come.
While childbearing is typically thought of as the stage of the family life cycle that follows marriage, the percent of children born outside of marriage has been increasing, with about 40% of all births to unmarried mothers.
Single-parent families are typically women who have children without getting married, but it could also be a man who has a child with another woman and the woman leaves, or dies, or something, and the father raises the child.