Alexa Christine Carlisle

Gregory Carlisle (Eldest Son)

Emma Carlisle (Daughter-in-law and Niece)

Patrick Carlisle (Grandson)

Edward Carlisle (Second Son)

Rebecca Carlisle (Daughter)

**Alexandra Christine Carlisle**, also known as "**Madame Carlisle"** is a member of The Partners, the executive heads of Providence.

## Background

*The Carlisle family is of English origin.*

*Their earliest known ancestor was knighted during the War of the Roses, and for centuries, the Carlisles lived a comfortable but quiet existence among the rural nobility, far removed from the hall of power.*

*This all changed in the 1850s, when the shrewd and enterprising Enchaboid Carlisle turned a fortune in the Second Opium War and subsequently established a global business empire in SHIPPING, RAILROADS and NEWSPAPER PUBLISHING.*

*They maintained strong ties to the Crown, securing lucrative contracts throughout the yet powerful British empire. During the 20th century, the Carlisles invested heavily in transportation and broadcasting and to this day, the Carlisle Group manages a diverse portfolio of shipping and logistics companies, airlines, newspapers and cable networks such as GNN.*

*In the aftermath of WW2, Thomas Alexander Carlisle saw an opportunity to take unprecedented of the flailing global markets. Approaching the heirs to the Stuyvesant and Ingram empires, both college fraternity brothers, Thomas proposed pooling their already vast assets and resources and establishing the corporate superstructure that would henceforth known as Providence. Ever since, the Carlisles have retreated from public view and few outside the English aristocracy recognized the name. The family is immensely wealthy but their true currency is influence.*

*In recent decades, the Carlisles have been investing heavily in technological companies, playing a large but unseen role in the rise of social media and the post-truth era. Thus crucial Providence assets such as Ether Corp (biotech), Kronstadt Industries (robotic), Dynasty Global (online retail) and Quantum Leap (consumer tech) are all largely controlled by the Carlisle family.*

*ALEXA CARLISLE (75), the current head of the family, is the most senior Providence Partner and the power cabal's unofficial leader. Cold as ice and sharp as a razor, Alexa is regal, proud, and dignified and displays the kind of blunt rudeness that only people of nobility get away with.*

*In her youth, Alexa was married to aristocratic naval officer Lyndon James Wittingworth, with whom she has three adult childrens: Gregory, Edward and Rebecca. Lyndon, by then an accomplished alcoholic, died in an automobile accident in 1978 and Alexa never remarried.*

*A secondborn child, Alexa never expected to become head of family. That respectfully would befall the firstborn son, Alexa's older brother, Montgomery. Instead, graduating first in class from Cambridge, Alexa made a meteoric rise within the male-dominated shipping industry in the 1970s - determined to succeed by merit alone.*

*But soon tragedy befell the Carlisle family, changing Alexa's trajectory forever.*

*Her brother Montgomery took a fatal tumble from a balcony at the Carlisle's ancestral estate and his death hit the youngest sibling, Zachary, hard. Following a mental breakdown and institutionalization, Zachary abandoned his own promising career and shielded himself at Thornbridge Manor, where he has lived quietly as a recluse ever since.*

*Fresh out of capable male heirs. Thomas Carlisle has no choice but to fast-track Alexa to become the new head of the family and - by extension - a future Partner of Providence.*

*Alexa took her apprenticeship with ruthless ambition and an uncanny knack for geo-political manipulations, quickly becoming the key architect behind Providence's expansion into non-western territories. She played a hand in orchestrating the War of the Falklands in a ploy to dethrone the military junta and along with the first Constant, Janus, she shrewdly played both sides of the Cold War to Providence's advantage. In the 1960s, her father had backed an obscure Romanian research facility, the "Institute for Human Betterment" which operated a cutting-edge human enhancement program and Alexa was instrumental in turning the Institute into a proper assassination service - not to mention the eventual "wipe" of its subjects. A decision which would one day cost her dearly.*

*As Thomas grew older and slowly succumbed to alzheimers. Alexa gained more and more responsibility. She finally assumed the position as full Providence Partner in 1988.*

*For more than three decades, she was secretly the most powerful woman on Earth. But now, the tectonic plates of power are shifting. Of the three Partners, only Alexa sees the writing on the wall, realizing with a trademark lack of sentimentality that Providence is lost to the machinations of their top controller, Arthur Edwards.*
*All that is left now, is to preserve the Carlisle family legacy. And perhaps to die with dignity.*

## Trivia

* In an Alternative Universe Alexa died at the age of 82 of Alzheimers.
* Alexa is a Lesbian.