Elizabeth Bourchier did retire for a short period in Wales, where she remained until the excitement surrounding the Restoration subsided. After Cromwell's death in 1658 and the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, she withdrew from public life. Elizabeth and Cromwell had nine children, including Richard, who succeeded him as Lord Protector, Henry, later lord deputy of Ireland, and daughters Bridget, Elizabeth, Mary and Frances. Elizabeth Bourchier was the wife of Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector of England. Her family had connections with Puritan gentry in Essex. As Cromwell rose to power during the English Civil War and became Lord Protector in 1653, Elizabeth lived at Whitehall and Hampton Court. Royalist writers mocked her as a frugal housewife. She lived at Northborough, in Northamptonshire, where she died in November 1665; she was buried there on November 19. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.