LONDON: A man has been charged with an offence of having a weapon with intent to “alarm her Majesty” under Britain’s treason law after being arrested at Queen Elizabeth’s Windsor Castle home on Christmas day last year.

Jaswant Singh Chail, 20, from Southampton in southern England, had been arrested in the grounds of the castle to the west of London where the 96-year-old monarch mostly resides, while carrying a crossbow on Dec 25, prosecutors said.

Following an investigation by counter-terrorism police, he was charged with making threats to kill, possession of an offensive weapon and an offence under the treason act of 1842.

Chail will appear at London’s Westminster magistrates court on Aug 17.

Published in Dawn, August 3rd, 2022