The recent episode where the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall were accosted with shouts of "off with theirs heads" reminds me that there was a time when this actually happened, as does this story. For almost 200 hundred years the head of Henri IV of France went missing. Henry was assassinated in 1610, but it seems his head did not become detached from his body until 1793 when revolutionaries made off with it. I guess a it is much easy to carry off just a head as opposed to the entire body.
According to this article from the BBC, the head has now been recovered and returned—although probably not reattached—to the rest of the body.
[Added 12/18/10. A video from the BBC on Henri's head.]
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