The Murder of Charles I
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Cromwell - Is He a King?
Cromwell became very grand. He travelled around with a throne and with a large retinue, a bodyguard of at least 32 men wherever he went. And he would I'm sure have taken the crown which some elements of the army wanted to offer him. But in the end he didn't do it because there was a sufficiently sizable dangerous faction of the army who would not have put up with it. So astonishingly the act of oblivion was a success and we didn't move into a period of stability and prosperity really.
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