Ronny there are just five treasonable offences


 


"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"


 


"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"


 


"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 only section that could possibly be used is the third but that falls down because in legal terms a state of war can only occur between nations.


 


Any charge of treason would never reach a jury - it would be dismissed by the judge long before it got to that stage.