Reply To: Sampling Bias (in Royal Marriage Statistics)

It is the Treason Act 1351 that makes it a capital crime; and that was on the books and the prescribed penalty at the time of Diana’s indiscretion. The Treason Act 1695 limits prosecution of 1351 to within 3 years of committal.

Interesting… you may, indeed, be correct on that.

Nonetheless, she would not have been tried or executed for the other reasons I mentioned (see points C, D and E above).

The Wolf