Beatrice Wake

Beatrice Wake, a Danaan Member of Parliament for Wintermore, was the original Minister for Justice in the Sacker Government. She was removed from office by a vote of no confidence on 12 November 2006 as a result of the political scandal surrounding Operation Dinah. She is the only Danaan Government minister to ever be removed from office by a vote of no confidence which did not include the entire Government. On 13 November, Aengus Lynch became her successor.

Wake also served as parliamentary leader of the Emancipation Party before it merged with several other parties of the constitutional left to form the Progressive Democratic Party. Wake is the most outspoken feminist in the Resurgent Dream and possibly in the entire Commonwealth of Peoples. She attracted substantial attention when she did a joint speaking tour on women's issues with Pantocratoria's Princess Irene, former leader of the Pantocratoria First Party and an outspoken social conservative.

Background and family

Youth

Beatrice Wake was born in Naoley to Samuel and Henrietta Wake. Both parents had been born in the Resurgent Dream but traced their ancestry back to England. Beatrice was the second of two children. Her older brother is Lieutenant George Wake.

Beatrice attended university at the University of Civic Duty, earning a Bachelors in political science and then a Juris Doctor degree. The Danaan Civil War occurred during her second year at the university and Beatrice was one of many student activists arrested for protesting the racialist policies of the insurgents during the time they held Tarana.