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Committing treason is one of the most extreme things you can be punished for in Britain.
While rare, acts of treason and high treason are still punishable - although the death penalty is no longer the ultimate sentence after it was scrapped in 1998 under the Crime And Disorder Act.
That is very fortunate for anyone committing acts of treason as the death penalty in the past didn’t mean an injection or gas chamber.
In fact, it was a lot worse as Guy Fawkes and his fellow comparators discovered when they were executed for treason in 1605 by hanging, drawing and quartering.
Nevertheless, guilty parties can expect a maximum term of life behind bars for acts of disloyalty to the Queen.
Britain’s Treason Act was written out in 1351 - and is still in force today, albeit with several amendments over the years.
The last time it was used was in 1946 at the trial of William Joyce, AKA Lord Haw-Haw.
He assisted Germany during the second world war by broadcasting Nazi propaganda and was ultimately executed by hanging.
But while the 665-year-old act may not be commonly used in the modern era, it has been brought up as recently as 2014 when the then Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond suggested that British extremists who travel to Iraq and Syria to pledge allegiance to ISIS could be charged with high treason.
Sex with various Royals
Sorry, but you also can’t have consensual sex with monarch’s wife, heir’s wife or his unmarried eldest daughter. No specifics on any daughters after that but basically the Royal women highest up in succession are out of bounds. Erm does that account for butlers, hangers on, what about if the monachs spouse indulges in a few bits on the side, seems a bit one sided to me.
Calling for the abolition of the monarchy
Technically you could be sent to prison for advocating the abolition of the monarchy by any means, as part of the Treason Felony Act 1848. It was mistakenly thought to have been repealed in 2013 - but it has not been used in a prosecution since 1879. erm a few MP's and party leaders due for a long spell.
Saying you want something bad to happen to the Queen
Under the Treason Act 1537, you can technically be imprisoned for something as simple as writing or saying that you wish harm upon either the Queen or her heirs. The odd few extremists,
Helping out Britain’s enemies
Essentially you are a traitor if you start helping out the enemy. And that can be in this country or abroad - either way it’s a big no-no. Hmmm holidays in Syria?
Hung draw and quartered, Hanging, (until Nearly dead) disembowled and then being pulled apart by four horses, proberly in this day an Range rovers, Paedo's and child rapists and murderers only get a few years. Oh and not to mention they used to hang molly's, Victorian transexuals under the 1883 buggery act.
Death penalty for murder abolished.
The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It abolished the death penalty for murder in Great Britain (the death penalty for murder survived in Northern Ireland until 1973). The Act replaced the penalty of death with a mandatory sentence of imprisonment for life.
The Act was introduced to Parliament as a private member's bill by Sydney Silverman MP. The Act provides that charges of capital murder at the time it was passed were to be treated as charges of simple murder and all sentences of death were to be commuted to sentences of life imprisonment. The legislation contained a sunset clause, which stated that the Act would expire on July 31st 1970 "unless Parliament by affirmative resolutions of both Houses otherwise determines". This was done in 1969 and the Act was made permanent.
The Act overlooked four other capital offences: high treason, "piracy with violence" (piracy with intent to kill or cause grievous bodily harm), arson in royal dockyards and espionage, as well as other capital offences under military law. The death penalty was not finally abolished in the United Kingdom until 1998 by the Human Rights Act and the Crime and Disorder Act. However the last executions in the United Kingdom were in 1964, for murder.
