Marie Antoinette undermining the First French Republic, Louis XVI was separated from his family and tried in December. He was found guilty by the Convention, led by the Jacobins who rejected the idea of keeping him as a hostage. On 15 January 1793, by a majority of one vote, that of Philippe Égalité, he was condemned to death by guillotine and executed on 21 January 1793. The queen, now called "Widow Capet", plunged into deep mourning. She still hoped her son Louis-Charles, whom the exiled "Comte de Provence", Louis XVI's brother, had recognised as Louis XVI's successor, would one day rule France.
The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe are also included in the "Doctor Who" Complete Seventh Series box set. The ten Christmas specials between "The Christmas Invasion" and "Last Christmas" inclusive were released in a box set titled "Doctor Who – The 10 Christmas Specials" on 19 October 2015. Selected pieces of score from "The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe" and the following Christmas special, as composed by Murray Gold, were included on a soundtrack released on 21 October 2013 by Silva Screen Records. The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe "The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe" is an episode of the British science fiction