DBWI: Richard Cromwell not a successful ruler?

According to a number of historians, Richard IV, the first Cromwell King, was one of the most successful early modern British monarchs, if not the most successful. He was able to build on his father Oliver's achievements in reforming religious matters and centralising the state, and his coronation as King in 1663 paved the way for over a hundred years of the House of Cromwell (or more, depending on how you define it). How, then, could Richard be less successful, and what would this mean for the British Isles? Would we see a Stuart restoration; the fragmentation of the three kingdoms; a return to civil war? Finally, what effect would this have had on Europe and the growing colonial Empire?
 
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