DBWI Richard Cromwell loses the plot

I was reading a biography of Richard Cromwell, and it claims that as a young man he had developed a reputation as being something of a dim bulb, and Oliver Cromwell only named him as the next Lord Protector at the last possible minute. Richard Cromwell, of course, surprised everyone by outmanuevering both the republicans and the army, and ruled the British Isles with an iron fist for over fifty years, reshaping them forever. Its hard to believe that some people even wanted to bring the Stuarts back when he took over. What if he had been as weak as everyone seems to have expected?
 
I doub't that a monarchy would be reinstituted in Britain. It seems at least as implausible as a republican France.
 
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Gian

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Yeah, the French Empire has been through a lot, but it still thrives under Napoleon IX. I wouldn't imagine how France wound up anything but a monarchy so yeah.
 
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