Galek Family

A Brief History
The Galek family is believed to have originated from Northern Haphvaard, Hagston, from around 1500. The earliest known member of the family is Galek Quiviar, 4th King of Haphvaard. Almost 4 centuries later, Camilla Galek, the King's direct descendant became Prime Minister of Haphvaard until the first Unity Day.

Camilla Galek
Camilla Galek (30 July 1853 – 20 November 1930) was a Haphvaardian and later Hagstonian politician. She became Prime Minister of Haphvaard in 1885 and oversaw the unification of Haphvaard and Gasbarn into Hagston.

Personal life
Camilla was born in Hathers, Haphvaard, on the 30 July 1853 to Cyrus Galek, a factory owner, and his wife Josephine. She was the third and youngest child. She engaged with poorer people in her area from a young age, stating in her autobiography that she often gave food to poor families. After experiencing the hardships faced by poor people, she vowed to try and change the underlying bias against the working class. Her parents divorced in 1869. She married Julius Williams (1850 – 1907), a musician, on the 15 September 1878. Her first child, May Williams Galek, was born on the 31 May 1881, followed by two more children: Charles in 1884 and Arthur in 1886. Her father Cyrus died of an alcohol-induced heart attack on the 14 May 1890. An attempt to assassinate her was made on the 11 October 1906, in which her husband was injured, forcing Camilla to resign as Prime Minister. Julius Williams died on the 24 January 1907, aged 56, from an infected explosion wound. After she resigned and moved back to Hathers, she continued to make speeches about promoting equality until 1921, when she withdrew from public life.

Her health began to decline after about 1928, and she was (possibly falsely) diagnosed with pneumonia in November of that year. She compiled her autobiography, with the help of her daughter May, from January to June 1929, but it was only published after her death. She was admitted to the Feltonmouth County Hospital near Hathers multiple times over the following sixteen months, although ironically she did not die there. Camilla Galek passed away from lung cancer at her home at about 8:00 a.m. on the 20 November 1930, aged 77, with all three of her children beside her. As per her wishes, she was cremated and buried in an unmarked grave in the churchyard nearest her place of birth.

Early political career
In 1875, she became the youngest politician ever seen in Haphvaard, when she became a member of the Hathers City Council as part of the then-major National Party. She immediately began to propose reforms for the workers, but most were rejected and those that were not were largely ignored. She persevered, however, and in 1877 she successfully ran for a place in the Feltonmouth County Council. The following year, she ran for a place in the Haphvaardian Parliament, but was unsuccessful. She continued as a local council member until 1880, when she was given a seat in the Haphvaardian Parliament. From there, her campaigns for equal rights won the favour of the working-class population of Haphvaard, and in 1882, she left the National Party and founded the Haphvaardian Citizens' Party, which would go on to become the ruling party of the whole of Laraniem.

Prime Minister of Haphvaard
By 1885, the Citizens' Party had gained overwhelming support, and in that year's Haphvaardian General Election, they won a 67% majority. Camilla Galek was sworn in as the 15th Prime Minister of Haphvaard on the 1 December 1885. For the next thirteen years, she continued to enact reforms that improved the rights of the working class and extended democracy in her country. She also strengthened the already-extensive bond between Haphvaard and neighbouring Gasbarn.

On the 3 February 1896, Camilla became the longest-ruling Prime Minister in the history of Haphvaard, having begun her second term on the 1 December the previous year when her party defeated the Haphvaardian Conservatives, who supported the middle and upper classes, by a 34% difference.

Hagstonian Unification
Main article: Hagston

In March 1898, Camilla passed the issue of unification with Gasbarn through parliament, which, after some deliberation, was granted on the 6 April 1898. On the 12 May of the same year, a referendum was called in both countries, and on the 25 May, the result was announced as for. On the 15 November 1898, the nation of Hagston was formed.

Prime Minister of Hagston
Although the new capital was chosen as Lyhnberk (previously the capital of Haphvaard), Camilla Galek was unanimously chosen as its leader. She ruled Hagston for eight years, before resigning following an assassination attempt by a disgruntled supporter of the Gasbarnese Conservatives in 1906, in which her husband was fatally injured. She then moved with her children back to her hometown of Hathers, where she lived until her death.