Charles Stuart Falls out of the Oak

While fleeing after the Battle of Worcester, the OTL future king either dies accidentally or is captured and executed. I have a feeling his brother James is a less valuable potential asset to General Monck, and so ends his days as a Spanish Admiral. How does this affect the future of the Commonwealth?
 
After his death, the closest American analogy to how people saw Cromwell was how people saw Robert E Lee in 1900. Some remember him well and others less so. No doubt Cromwell prolonged the strife, but his army really was more efficient than the incompetent royalist counterpart.
 
Wouldn't James be offered his own form of Restoration when issues of Cromwell's successor come up?
Possibly, but I'm going with him being a less enticing (and more reluctant) prospect than Charles. The question I'm really interested in is this - if the post-Cromwellian Commonwealth agrees that Restoration is Not a Good Idea, how else might they get their act together?
 
Possibly, but I'm going with him being a less enticing (and more reluctant) prospect than Charles. The question I'm really interested in is this - if the post-Cromwellian Commonwealth agrees that Restoration is Not a Good Idea, how else might they get their act together?
The Restoration was apparently made possible through George Monck who was a bipartisan MP and mostly Parliamentarian general who was in contact with Charles II through personal friendship.
I suspect he'll become prominent in the Council of State following Richard Cromwell's resignation and having fended off a probable Royalist attack for James would probably be elected as Lord Protector.
A lot will then depend on his rule and how internal infighting and external "Jacobitism" pan out.
It's possible that William of Orange ends up offered the crowns if republicanism still fails.
 
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