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Richard Cromwell

1626–1712

Richard Cromwell was the third surviving son of Oliver Cromwell and Elizabeth Bourchier. He succeeded his father as Lord Protector in 1658 but lacked a secure power base in the army and was unable to reconcile its senior officers with civilian government.

He resigned in May 1659, and the collapse of the Protectorate contributed to the restoration of Charles II the following year. Richard was the second and final Lord Protector, and the failure of his short government helped clear the path to the Stuart Restoration. Richard Cromwell was born in Huntingdon and died in Cheshunt.

In Andrew Taylor’s The Last Protector, Richard Cromwell, the former Lord Protector and son of Oliver Cromwell, has secretly returned to England despite the danger posed by the restored monarchy. In Miranda Malins’ The Puritan Princess, Eighteen-year-old Frances Cromwell has been carried by her father Oliver’s extraordinary rise into the ceremonial world of Hampton Court and Whitehall, where the family of the Lord Protector lives with many of the trappings of royalty.

Series

Historical novels and book series featuring Richard Cromwell (2 series)

James Marwood & Cat Lovett in Order

by Andrew Taylor 6 books 4.2(56,565)

Andrew Taylor’s Restoration series follows James Marwood, the son of a former Fifth Monarchist who becomes a government clerk and investigator, and Cat Lovett, the daughter of a regicide who rebuilds her life as an architect. Beginning with the Great Fire of London in 1666, their separate paths…

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The Puritan Princess in Order

by Miranda Malins 2 books 4.2(756)

Miranda Malins’s two Cromwell-family novels tell the story of Oliver Cromwell’s daughters across the English Civil War, Commonwealth and Protectorate. The Rebel Daughter follows Bridget Cromwell from 1643 through her marriages to Parliamentarian generals Henry Ireton and Charles Fleetwood, while The Puritan Princess turns to her younger sister…

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