Originally Posted by
43Inches
While Crommie did much during his tenure, when he died no one had the same charisma and fortitude and the Monarchy returned reinstating much of what was dissolved. In a show of how mad the monarchy were, Charles II had the bodies of Cromwell, Ireton and Bradshaw all exhumed and "executed" by being hung and beheaded. Obviously this must have been terrible for them... being executed after being dead for a year or more.
They were probably over the moon wherever they were that they had pissed Charlie off so badly to have them executed post death.
And yet, today there is a statue of Oliver Cromwell on the grounds of Parliament at Westminster titled "Cromwell, Our Man of Men" and "Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England".
I don't recall seeing any statues of Charles or his mongrel son, Charles II - a real scumbag who is right up there with the most corrupt monarchs they ever had (actually, the whole system is corrupt, but that's for another day.......)