Dictator?
No! It needed a Cromwell for that! Richard could not have maintained himself.

It is true that he was the true son of a great man--in other words a fool.

If I had wished to make myself king, there was nothing to hinder me; and if ever the wish takes me there will be nothing to hinder.

Now, if you have an answer to that, give it." "You tell me, citizen First Consul, that the situation in France in 1800 is not the same as England in 1660.

Charles I.was beheaded in 1649, Louis XVI.