Eleija Longwood

**Eleija Nina Longwood, 7th Duke Longwood** (August 28, 1987 -) was a prominent Libirachi politician, business leader and noblewoman who served as chair of the Court of the High Families from August 1, 2033 onwards, as the 12th Chairwoman of the National Congress from October 7, 2035 onwards, as well as serving as matriarch of the Longwood family from May 1, 2020 onwards and as Secretary of State for Business from November 11, 2019 until April 10, 2025. From November 11, 2024 onwards, she was fifth in the Libirachi order of formal precedence thanks to her position as the matriarch of the Longwood family. From May 2016 until June 2017, and from September until November 2019, Eleija Longwood served as a business special advisor to the Libirachi government.

Born in 1987 as the granddaughter of former Libirachi president Pearce Longwood, Eleija Longwood and her older brother Jonah grew up within an influential family during the reign of President Jacob Zuma and were able to avoid many of the harshest repressions undertaken by the Zuma regime thanks to the prestige and power of the Longwood family name. In 2009, Eleija Longwood graduated from university with a degree in political studies and business economics, and went on to assume control over the Longwood Corporation following the death of her father Tobiet in 2013. As a key business leader, Longwood's support for the democratic regime of President Nathan Jackson helped confer the flailing administration with legitimacy; in 2017, a political scandal erupted over the use of government funds to invest in the Longwood Corporation after CEO Eleija Longwood was appointed as a special advisor to President Jackson the previous year, and Longwood was promptly removed from her role as special adviser.

After the formation of the Imperial State Council and the launch of the 2019 coup d'état on September 24, 2019, Eleija Longwood was invited to become a member of the council as the leader of the organisation's forum on business within the nation; after the death of President Nathan Jackson during the coup and the installation of education secretary Laura Fox as president, Longwood was given the full portfolio of business tsar within the council's *de-facto* cabinet. Upon the proclamation of the Fox Dynasty and the coronation of Laura Fox as empress on November 11, 2019, the Imperial State Council was disbanded and Longwood was instead given the newly created post of Business Minister within the cabinet of President Xi Jimping. Now tasked with controlling the government's business policy, Eleija Longwood introduced the Business Regulations, Ownership and Practices Act 2020 on January 16, 2020 in order to extend significant state control into the economy; with the passing of the act, thousands of businesses saw their shares forcefully acquired by the government whilst hundreds of other firms opened a seat on their board of directors to the position of business minister, making Longwood the most economically powerful individual within the new Fox Dynasty. Following the outbreak of the Has Wars in April 2020, Longwood was tasked with ensuring that international investment remained within the Libirachi economy, and as such the government launched numerous trade agreements with western nations in order to help fund the war. On April 16, 2020, Eleija Longwood was elected into the Libirachi National Congress.

On May 1, 2020, Empress Laura Fox re-instated the centuries old traditions of the High Families, senior members of Libirachi nobility at the head of former royal families, and as the direct relative of former Presidents Ashford, Feidel and Pearce Longwood, Eleija Longwood was appointed as the matriarch of the Longwood family and granted the formal title of 7th Duke of Longwood after the peerage had been absent for nearly 140 years. With the revival of the high families also came the re-introduction of the Court of the High Families, of which Longwood was entitled to a seat on due to her status as patriarch; following the death of Laura Fox and the coronation of her daughter Penny Fox as empress in 2024, Longwood retained her title as Longwood family matriarch and her seat on the Court of the High Families. In 2023, at the behest of newly appointed President Damien Salamander, Eleija Longwood chaired a review into government and presented a report which highlighted numerous concerns over corruption and failures of cabinet which prompted a brutal cabinet reshuffle within days of the report being presented. In 2025, following 4 and a half years as business secretary, Eleija Longwood announced to the Libirachi National Congress that she would stand down from her cabinet position to focus on other matters of state as a privy counsellor.