A man arrested with a crossbow at the Queen's home at Windsor Castle on Christmas Day has been charged with having a weapon with intent to "alarm her Majesty" under Britain's Treason Act.
Jaswant Singh Chail, from Southampton in southern England, had been arrested on December 25 last year while carrying a crossbow in the grounds of the castle to the west of London where the 96-year-old Elizabeth mostly resides, prosecutors said.
This section details punishment for "discharging or aiming fire-arms, or throwing or using any offensive matter or weapon, with intent to injure or alarm her Majesty".
Chail will appear at London's Westminster Magistrates' Court on August 17.
"The Crown Prosecution Service reminds all concerned that criminal proceedings against Mr Chail are active and that he has the right to a fair trial," Nick Price, Head of the CPS Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division, said.
The Queen was at the castle at the time of the incident along with her son and heir Prince Charles, his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, and other close family.
Police said Chail had not broken into any buildings.
In 2003, Aaron Barschak, who called himself "the comedy terrorist", evaded security at Windsor wearing a pink dress and an Osama bin Laden-styled beard to gatecrash the 21st birthday party of Charles's elder son Prince William, the second-in-line for the throne.
The last person to be convicted under the more serious medieval 1351 Treason Act was William Joyce, a propagandist for Nazi Germany nicknamed Lord Haw Haw who broadcast to Britain during World War 2 and was hanged in 1946.
