A man was charged under the UK Treason Act on Tuesday with carrying a weapon with the intent to “alarm” Queen Elizabeth after a break-in at Windsor Castle at Christmas last year.
Jaswant Singh Chail, 20, from Southampton, southern England, was arrested on the castle grounds west of London, where the 96-year-old monarch resides, while carrying an arrow shooter.
After an anti-terrorist police investigation, he was charged with making death threats, possession of an offensive weapon and a misdemeanor under section 2 of the Treason Act 1842.
This section details the punishment for “unloading or aiming firearms, or launching or using any offensive material or weapon, with the intent to injure or alarm Her Majesty”.
Chail will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London on August 17.
Last year, the Queen changed tradition and decided to celebrate Christmas in Windsor, instead of her usual choice of the Sandringham country house, because of the spread of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in the country.
The closest family members traditionally gather to celebrate the holiday season at Sandringham’s farm in Norfolk, about 100 miles north of London.
It wasn’t until the 1960s, when the monarch’s children were still young, that this tradition had temporarily moved to Windsor Castle.
Source: CNN Brasil
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