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When the Royalists were defeated at [[battle of Worcester|Worcester]] in September, he helped Charles evade capture; although arrested himself, he managed to escape from the [[Tower of London]] and rejoin the court.{{sfn|Hervey|1900|p=28}} He was appointed Groom of the Chamber and his wife Mary governess to [[Henrietta of England|Princess Henrietta]], making them part of a close knit inner circle of royal servants. During the short-lived 1658 alliance between Charles and [[Habsburg Spain|Spain]], Blagge and other exiles served in the army defeated by an Anglo-French army at [[Battle of the Dunes (1658)|The Dunes]] in June.{{sfn|Wallingford Castle}}
After the [[Stuart Restoration]] in May 1660, he was rewarded for his loyal service by being appointed
Blagge's early death left his widow three young daughters and large debts which she settled only just before her own death in 1671. Despite this, she managed to have both Mary and Margaret appointed [[Maid of honour]] to the [[Anne Hyde|Duchess of York]] and all three of her girls married well. Margaret was greatly admired by the diarist [[John Evelyn]], who wrote a short biography after she died in childbirth in 1678.{{sfn|Evelyn|1907|p=16}}
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