Flavia Flavia was both the High Chancellor and , following the Fifth Doctor ' s deputisation ( and resulting flight from office ) , at least the acting President of the High Council of Time Lord s . According to Lady President Romana speaking at around the time of the Pandora incident , one of Flavia ' s legacies was this combination of the two highest offices . Speaking at the time of the Pandora incident , Romana claimed that no one had independently held the office of the High ( or Lord ) Chancellor since Flavia . ( AUDIO : " Pandora " ) Biography . Like all Time Lord s , Flavia was taken from her family at the age of eight for the selection process in the Drylands . Staring into the Untempered Schism as part of a Time Lord initiation rite , Flavia was inspired by what she saw in the Schism . ( PROSE : " A Brief History of Time Lords " ) Ascension to the presidency . Flavia met with the fifth incarnation of the Doctor when Borusa summoned the Doctor ' s other selves to the Death Zone . She was sympathetic towards him , letting him in the Lord President ' s room and talking to the guards for him . Following Borusa ' s defeat and entombment in the Dark Tower , the High Council granted Flavia the authority to make the Doctor President of the High Council . The Doctor used his emergency powers to put Flavia in charge , appointing her Acting President until he returned . He then escaped from his homeworld of Gallifrey , evading the responsibility the office of Lord President . ( TV : " The Five Doctors " ) In her first term as President , Flavia was " pitched into the Presidency when Borusa vanished and the Doctor absconded " . ( PROSE : " The Eight Doctors " ) Flavia was later deposed in favour of the political non - entity Niroc after allegations were created that she had not been legitimately elected to the Presidency . The Celestial Intervention Agency wanted a President they could control more easily , to conceal the recent theft of important data from the Matrix . The Doctor was put on trial during this period . A Committee of Inquiry was opened into the trial . This was due to the actions of the Eighth Doctor and a temporal duplicate of the Sixth Doctor ( the latter was created when the Valeyard tried to " force " an alternate timeline where the Sixth Doctor was found guilty and executed ) . Although the Sixth Doctor ' s temporal duplicate eventually ceased to exist , he lasted long enough to testify at his future self ' s inquiry . The Eighth Doctor awakened Borusa to quell the riots while the Sixth Doctor fought the Valeyard and the Master in the Matrix . ( PROSE : " The Eight Doctors " ; TV : " The Trial of a Time Lord : The Ultimate Foe " ) After several regenerations , she became the President once again . ( PROSE : " The Eight Doctors " ) When the Seventh Doctor was captured by the Committee of Three , his companions escaped and warned President Flavia of the danger . ( PROSE : " Blood Harvest " ) Shortly afterwards , Ruath shot Flavia with a stunner to gain access to the Time Scoop . ( PROSE : " Goth Opera " ) Flavia later learnt the Eighth Doctor was visiting his past seven selves for unknown reasons , bypassing all usual security protocols preventing such interaction . Flavia , despite the protests of the unscrupulous Time Lord Ryoth , decided to allow these visits to continue until they were proven to be a danger to Gallifrey . Once the visits were concluded , Flavia reflected that she wished the Doctor well in his future adventures . ( PROSE : " The Eight Doctors " ) End of political career . Conflicting accounts existed as to the manner in which Flavia ' s political career ended . At issue was whether Romana II had " directly " succeeded Flavia , or if there had been an intervening president . Some sources held that Romana II simply contested Flavia for the presidency and won . ( PROSE : " Happy Endings " ) However , there was evidence of an intervening President . Irving Braxiatel suggested another President ruled in an interim term , and that they had been male . ( AUDIO : " Lies " ) Romana herself recalled only that she had invoked a so - called " right of challenge " against her predecessor , just as Darkel later challenged her , ( AUDIO : " Insurgency " ) after she was " asked to become President " following " the coup that overthrew Flavia ' s inauspicious reign " despite her lack of political experience . ( AUDIO : " Lies " )