At what point does publicly insulting the Royal Family become Treason?

Question

At what point does publicly insulting the Royal Family become Treason?

Answer 1

When they become fascist and n***s.  Oh Philip is fascist and n**i where do you think his grandson got the uniform from?  I feel the noose tightening round my neck.

Answer 2

I don't think it does anymore.

Answer 3

unfortunately treason isn't a hangable offence anymore....shame really.

Answer 4

If you refer to Mohammed al Fayed's evidence as reported, anything said in court is privileged.

Answer 5

What insulting that bunch of dynastic inbreeds - treason never, Vive la Republic!

Answer 6

Never. We have freedom of expression now.

They can only sue for defamation in a civil court if they think an offence has been committed

Answer 7

well there's no treason  now it's a free country ..... well not quite they are still telling us what we can and can't do

Answer 8

you can say whatever you like about them.

Answer 9

The British law of treason is entirely statutory and has been so since the Treason Act 1351. The Treason Act 1351 has since been amended several times, and currently provides for four categories of treasonable offences, namely:

- "when a man doth compass or imagine the death of our lord the King, or of our lady his Queen or of their eldest son and heir";

- "if a man do violate the King’s companion, or the King’s eldest daughter unmarried, or the wife of the King’s eldest son and heir";

- "if a man do levy war against our lord the King in his realm, or be adherent to the King’s enemies in his realm, giving to them aid and comfort in the realm, or elsewhere, and thereof be probably attainted of open deed by the people of their condition"; and

- "if a man slea the chancellor, treasurer, or the King’s justices of the one bench or the other, justices in eyre, or justices of assise, and all other justices assigned to hear and determine, being in their places, doing their offices".

Another Act, the Treason Act 1702 provides for a fifth category of treason, namely:

- "if any person or persons ... shall endeavour to deprive or hinder any person who shall be the next in succession to the crown ... from succeeding after the decease of her Majesty (whom God long preserve) to the imperial crown of this realm and the dominions and territories thereunto belonging".

The penalty for treason was changed from death to a maximum of imprisonment for life in 1998 under the Crime And Disorder Act. Before 1998, the death penalty was mandatory, subject to the royal prerogative of mercy. Since the abolition of the death penalty for murder in 1965 an execution for treason was unlikely to be carried out.

Answer 10

Well it doesn't any more you can say or do what you like.

Whaaa hooo!

I do not like the idea of hanging, drawing and quartering but I think it would be great if British people who commit acts of Terror against their own people were charged with treason and deported by catapult! (Sling shot for the Americans in the audience)