Keely Morse

**Keely Bobbi Morse,** **1st Duchess of Shanghai**, (May 6, 1983 -) was a Libirachi politician and stateswoman who led the Imperial Privy Council of Empress Penny Fox from November 11, 2024 onwards, and was ennobled as the Duchess of Shanghai on the same day as part of the first anniversary of the Coronation of Fox II. She previously served as the Secretary of State for the Union of Aligned Nations between 2023 and 2025 under the chairmanship of Stanford Newman, as well as having previously served as an undersecretary of state during the tenure of Spencer Davis as Secretary of State between 2019 and 2023 and as a prominent Congresswoman in the Libirachi National Congress between 2015 and 2023.

Having entered politics in 2007 as a civil servant after a career in the Libirachi Imperial Army, Keely Morse served under the presidencies of Jacob Zuma and Nathan Jackson before becoming a congresswoman in the Libirachi National Congress as part of the Revolutionary Party, becoming a key part of the party's legislative group. In 2019, Morse took part in the Imperial Army's 2019 coup d'état and was part of internal opposition to the Patriot Act, giving her a senior role within the interior office under Secretary Spencer Davis. Morse was present for the coronation of Empress Laura Fox on November 11, 2019.

With the onset of the Libirachi Civil War in June 2022, Morse became tasked with helping the internal ministry create plans for the defence of the Libirachi Empire and following the dismissal of President Xi Jimping on February 2, 2023, Morse was dismissed from government and instead was granted the title of Secretary of State for the Union of Aligned Nations under the leadership of Stanford Newman. As the tide of the war began to turn, Morse's role as the leading defence minister of the UAN became largely obsolete and instead took up an informal role as an advisor to Regent Penny Fox in August 2024.

Following the civil war's conclusion in 2024 with the formal dissolution of the Confederacy of Independent Nations, Morse remained as Secretary of State for the UAN until it's own dissolution, returning to Beijing in November 2024 to be present at the coronation of Penny Fox before being granted the title of Duchess of Shanghai. Alongside her role as Duchess of Shanghai, Morse assumed the role of president of the Imperial Privy Council. During the Wahngso Crisis, Duchess Morse as taken hostage by the Imperial Occupation Legion during their attempted coup. In 2026, Morse was present at the wedding of Empress Penny Fox and Freya Sherman, and in 2028 she helped the imperial couple adopt Kristen Fox as their daughter.

During the 2033 COMPNOR self-coup d'état, Duchess Keely Morse sided with the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order, and helped coordinate the plot at the instruction of the Empress Fox; following the coup, Morse was granted the role of Secretary of State for Education within the Imperial Cabinet and given control over managing the indoctrination of children into the Fox Dynasty's New-Think. In 2034 with the establishment of the Central Military Commission, Duchess Morse was granted a seat thanks to her role as president of the privy council, and in May 2034, she voted to enact the 2034 Army Purge.

## History

Born in 1983 into a middle class family in Shanghai, Keely Morse enlisted within the Libirachi Imperial Army in 2000 as a Lieutenant, serving for 7 years before joining the Home Office in 2007 under the presidency of Jacob Zuma. Serving in the Home Office for 3 years before the 2010 Libirachi Presidential Election, Morse remained in the department under the tenure of Spencer Davis as Minister of Internal Affairs until the 2015 ministerial reshuffles when she left the civil service to become a congresswoman in the Libirachi National Congress, quickly gaining prominence within the ranks of the Revolutionary Party for her role in numerous bills and legislatory amendments in order to help set the stage for the Libirachi Civil War of 2019 as part of Minister for Education Laura Fox's bid to take power. Rewarded for her support of the new government, Morse took up a role within the Home Office to become the Undersecretary of State for Spencer Davis from 2019 until 2023, when the dismissal of the Xi Jimping III Cabinet in February upended much of the efforts of the civil service to continue fighting the monumental Libirachi Civil War of 2022 - 24, having only just come out of 3 years of fighting during the Has Wars. Taking up a new office as Secretary of State for the Union of Aligned Nations under the chairmanship of Stanford Newman, Morse served in her post for the remaining years of the war, retiring in 2025 upon the dissolution of the UAN. Keely Morse was rewarded for her service during the war by being ennobled as the Duchess of Shanghai in 2024, granting her a sizable estate and state pension, as well as making her the titular leader of the newly established Privy Council of Empress Penny Fox.

## Chairwomanship of the Imperial Privy Council

Following the conclusion of the Libirachi Civil War and the Coronation of Fox II, Keely Morse returned back to the Libirachi Empire and took up a role within the household of the Empress Penny Fox as the president of the Imperial Privy Council on November 11, 2024 and the leader of the court surrounding the empress. In the early years of the Fox regime, Duchess Morse helped establish many different royal titles, such as the Dutchy of Beijing and the Dutchy of Wuhan, which were conferred onto senior members of the political establishment, as well as overseeing the revival of the titles of the old imperial families such as the Dutchy of Longwood.

During the Wahngso Crisis in 2026, Keely Morse was one of many senior royal family members and advisors held hostage by the Imperial Occupation Legion under the command of Grand General Guo Tijjan during the attempted coup, but was freed by GeneralMaximilian Veers of COMPNOR. In the aftermath, Duchess Morse oversaw the creation of the Dutchy of Ulaanbaatar as a reward for General Veers, now the head of the Vindicta imperial protection unit. Duchess Keely Morse also attended the wedding of Empress Penny Fox and Freya Sherman in August 2026, after giving assent to the Same-Sex Relations Act of 2026 on behalf of the empress. In 2028, Keely Morse led the effort to allow the imperial couple to adopt a daughter, and oversaw all legal aspects of the adoption of Kristen Fox.

As relations between President Damien Salamander and Empress Penny Fox began to suffer in the early 2030s, Duchess Morse became one of the fiercest critics of the president, publicly calling on him to resign from office in disgrace. Morse is alleged to have been the first to suggest using the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order to remove President Salamander and replace him with a loyalist leader. In 2033 during the COMPNOR self-coup, Morse acted as a liaison between COMPNOR leader Karyn Voor and the Empress Fox in order to coordinate the efforts of the coup; following the impeachment of President Salamander and the election of Voor as president, Duchess Morse was appointed as Secretary of State for Education within the Voor cabinet. In 2034, with the creation of the Central Military Commission, Morse was granted a seat on the commission by the virtue of being president of the privy council; in May 2034, she voted to purge the army of longstanding officers in order to ensure loyalty to the crown.

## See Also

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