A Goodreads user asked Kathryn Warner:

HI Kathryn, I wondered if you might shed light on Queen Isabellas' later life her son seized power? Was she for he most part 'royally imprisoned" for the remainder of her years? Or was she removed from court for a period of time and then allowed to live a fairly normal life? Do you have any sense of what relations she might have had with her son's family? Her grandchildren? Or was she truly isolated?

Kathryn Warner She was briefly kept under house arrest and made to give up the lands she'd appropriated and the absurdly high income she'd awarded herself, and given a more reasonable income and allowed to keep her own lands. She lived a conventional life as a queen dowager, travelling around her estates and buying lots of jewels. She wasn't imprisoned. She's fairly obscure though and her accounts only survive for the last few months of her life in 1357/58. She was visited by her son and grandchildren and a dowager queen was never going to be isolated. There's a post about it on my blog and I deal with it in my bio of her.

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