[AnAmericanMother]

Wrong head.

That's the execution of Louis XVI.

In the full picture you can see the French troops in the foreground.

That's backwards -- the disloyal anti-royalists (like the men who killed Charles I) should be going to the scaffold (not the block - that's reserved for peers.)

[BBell]

I know it's Louis XVI. I guess I should be more careful here in what pictures I post. I just like that it had “off with their heads” on it. The first thing I thought of when I read post no.2 was Alice in Wonderland (Looking Glass what ever). I really did not think anyone here would be so serious about it. The muzzie angle worries me more. And what was my dead link anyway?

[Clemenza]

Cromwell was a puritan, ie a member of the "religious right." The royalist forces were largely Anglicans and Catholics. Maybe if Charles would have conceded more power to Parliament, the Civil War wouldn't have broken out.

You do know that Cromwell's body was dug-up and torn limb from limb after the Restoration.

Nice to see that we have royalists here in the US. I assume that you would have supported George III back in the day. I would have been a radical republican myself.

Leave the monarchy to backward societies like Saudi Arabia. Let the Hanover/Windsor Saxe-Coburg family become private citizens like anyone else.