Although Catherine has a Jewish friend who disappears with her whole family, their fate is glossed over with a very broad brush. The last treason trial was that of William Joyce, " Lord Haw-Haw", who was executed by hanging in 1946. When the Scottish Parliament was set up in 1998, treason and treason felony were among the " reserved matters" it was prohibited from legislating about, ensuring that the law of treason remains uniform throughout Great Britain. It is thought the strength of public feeling against Joyce as a perceived traitor was the driving force behind his prosecution. Under laws passed after James II was deposed, it became treasonable to correspond with the Jacobite claimants ( main article), or to hinder succession to the Throne under the Act of Settlement 1701, or to publish that anyone other than the individual specified by the Act of Settlement had the right to inherit the Crown.

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But importing any counterfeit English money remained high treason, even if no attempt were made to use it in payment. The author then worked for Unilever and later as an administrator at the University of London before she entered the House of Commons in the UK as a Member of Parliament for the Conservative Party.The terms "compass or imagine" indicate the premeditation of a murder; it would not be high treason to accidentally kill the sovereign or any other member of the Royal Family (though someone could be charged with manslaughter or negligent homicide). However, later that year prosecutors indicted Abu Hamza al-Masri for inciting murder (he was convicted in February 2006), and it now seems unlikely that anyone will be charged with treason in the foreseeable future.

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The offender commits any of the crimes against the person, employing means, methods or forms in the execution thereof which tend directly and specially to insure its execution, without risk to himself arising from the defense which the offended part might make.Numerous new offences—including intending to kill the Sovereign (even without an overt act demonstrating such intent) and killing an ambassador—were declared treasonable. The last conviction under a Treason Act was of Jaswant Singh Chail in 2023, who was charged with an offence relating to a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth II. The last types of high treason defined by the Treason Act 1351 were the forgery of the Great Seal or Privy Seal, the counterfeiting of English (later British) money and the importing of money known to be counterfeit.