One of the most ruthless executions to have occurred in Europe was when the King of France went to the guillotine on the 21st January 1793 in Paris. He was a man who had been found guilty of treason against his own people, but King Louis XVI did not die as a King. He had lost this title and the monarchy was abolished in the previous September. However he was not the only member of the royal family who was executed, as his wife Marie Antoinette also was executed and the Queen lost her head on the same scaffold. Louis XVI’s execution was very swift and it was a historic moment in History, but what happened when the guillotine fell, and what did the subsequent exhumation of Louis XVI’s remains tell about his execution?