How were Lettice's later years? Comfortable?
After Leicester's death, Lettice married a man years her junior, Sir Christopher Blount. This was another unpopular move with the Queen, and Lettice lived a life of the disgraced, mostly at Drayton Bassett in Staffordshire. She remained on friendly terms with her son Robert, Earl of Essex, and took some part in the education of her grandson, Robert (later 3rd Earl of Essex). In 1597, the Earl made a number of attempts to reconcile the two ladies. The Queen avoided two meetings before the two eventually came face to face, and Lettice was able to present her cousin with a jewel. A subsequent request for permission to return to Court was, however, refused and the Countess was, once more, forbidden access to the monarch. Later, Lettice was forbidden to see her son during his imprisonment at York House but, upon his move to Essex House where she had been living, she was permitted a single interview. After Essex was executed, Lettice retired to Drayton Bassett in Staffordshire and died there, vigorous to the last, on 25th December 1634, aged 94. She was buried beside the Earl of Leicester at Warwick and some verses by her great grandson, Gervase Clifton, concerning her life, were painted on a tablet hung hear her tomb: "
she was in her younger years matched with two great English peers; she that did supply the wars with thunder, and the court with stars".