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|name=Padmé Amidala
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'''Padmé Naberrie''' of [[Naboo/Legends|Naboo]] was the mother of [[Luke Skywalker/Legends|Luke Skywalker]] and [[Leia Organa Solo]], two of the most important figures in galactic history. She was also the grandmother of [[Jaina Solo Fel|Jaina]], [[Darth Caedus|Jacen]], and [[Anakin Solo]]. 

==Biography==
===Birth of the twins and Padmé's destiny===
In the last minutes of her life, Amidala gave birth to healthy twins, Luke Skywalker and [[Leia Organa Solo|Leia Amidala Skywalker]], both of whom would later go on to join the [[Alliance to Restore the Republic/Legends|Rebellion]] Padmé and other Senators had started and defeat the [[Galactic Empire/Legends|Empire]] together. In her final breaths, she told Obi-Wan Kenobi that good still remained in her husband, now Darth Vader. Padmé Amidala died at the age of twenty-seven. Her daughter, Leia, was adopted by Senator Bail Organa and [[Breha Organa/Legends|his wife]], and her son, Luke, was taken in by his father's step-brother and his wife.{{Fact}}

===Legacy===
{{Quote|She was&hellip; very beautiful. Kind, but&hellip; sad.|Leia Organa, to Luke Skywalker, reminiscing their deceased mother|<ref name="ROTJ">{{Film|VI}}</ref>}}
Shortly after her funeral, Amidala's son, Luke Skywalker, was given to the care of her husband's step-brother, Owen Lars, and his wife, Beru, on their moisture farm on Tatooine. Luke would follow in his father's footsteps, becoming a powerful Jedi.<ref name="ROTJ" /> Leia, meanwhile, was formally adopted by Bail Organa and his wife, Breha, becoming the heir apparent to Alderaan as Princess Leia Organa.<ref name="ROTS">{{Film|III}}</ref> Her life would mirror her mother's, with Leia also serving the Senate as well as championing similar causes.<ref name="ANH">{{Film|IV}}</ref>

[[File:Imppal.jpg|thumb|left|175px|A painting of a young Padmé Amidala hanging in the [[Imperial Palace/Legends|Imperial Palace]] during the [[Thrawn campaign]].]]
Shortly before the [[Battle of Endor/Legends|Battle of Endor]] in [[4 ABY/Legends|4 ABY]], Luke asked Leia if she remembered her mother at all. From very faint recollections, Leia described her as "very beautiful, kind, but sad." Luke remarked that he had no memory of Amidala whatsoever.<ref name="ROTJ" /> Unknown to either of them, a large painting of Amidala still hung in the [[Imperial Palace/Legends|Imperial Palace]], even up to the [[Thrawn campaign]], twenty-eight years after her death.<ref name="LC5">[[The Last Command 5|''The Last Command'' 5]]</ref>

==Behind the scenes==
===Continuity===
Padmé's image first appeared in the ''Star Wars'' universe in the comic [[The Last Command 5|''The Last Command'' 5]],<ref name="LC5" /> which was published around a year before ''The Phantom Menace'' premiered. At the time the comic was being created, the decision to cast Natalie Portman as the mother of the twins had just been made, so the authors of the comic decided to place her likeness in a portrait in the background. This has an important bearing on the [[Talk:Padmé Amidala#Palace portrait|dispute]] over whether Leia ever knew what her real mother looked like.

In [[Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi|''Return of the Jedi'']], Leia tells Luke she remembered her real mother dying when Leia was very young, and described her as very kind, beautiful and sad. Since Padmé dies, in ''Revenge of the Sith'', while Leia is a newborn, it is not clear how Leia has these memories.<ref name="ROTS" /> (It's possible that Leia felt her mother's sadness through the Force; however, this is not confirmed. [[Leland Chee]] admitted that this inconsistency is not yet addressed in the [[Holocron continuity database]].<ref name="H1">{{SWBoards|url=thread.jspa?threadID=152583&start=495|thread=Holocron continuity database questions|user=[[Leland Chee|Tasty Taste]]|date=November 02, 2005|time=09:12 AM|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060306023610/http://forums.starwars.com/thread.jspa?threadID=152583&start=495}}</ref>)

The [[Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (novel)|''Return of the Jedi'' novelization]] said that Obi-Wan took both Leia and her mother (Padmé) to Alderaan after the birth of the twins,<ref name="ROTJn">[[Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (novel)|''Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi'' novel]]</ref> while in [[Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith|''Revenge of the Sith'']], Padmé dies shortly after childbirth.<ref name="ROTS" />

The [[2004]] [[Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (junior novelization)|junior novelization of ''Return of the Jedi'']] suggests her last words were truly prophetic, and that, years after her death, she would play a very significant role in restoring freedom to the galaxy: placing the reader inside the Dark Lord's mind as he watches Luke suffer under Palpatine's wrath, the book implies that, somehow, the thought of Padmé and her undying love broke through to him, bringing about the realization that he could not allow this to happen to ''her'' child, and it was at that moment that Anakin Skywalker overcame Darth Vader and destroyed the Emperor.

===Quotes===
One of Padmé Amidala's lines, "So this is how liberty dies.... with thunderous applause," said in reference to Palpatine's transformation of the Republic into an Empire in ''Revenge of the Sith'', was later quoted by James Cameron in his interview with George Lucas in his AMC series ''James Cameron's Story of Sci-Fi'', regarding how Empires continuously make the same mistakes throughout history, with Lucas also saying in the middle of Cameron's quoting of the line that they're "''in the middle of it''," referring to the surge in populism as a result of the 2016 United States Presidential Elections.<ref name="AMC">{{Youtube|fv9Jq_mCJEo|George Lucas on Star Wars Being Anti-Authoritarian &#124; James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction|channel/UCmxURUIJXKnoC7_i1fPhs7Q|AMC|quote=GEORGE LUCAS: That went on for hundreds for years, or sometimes thousands of years. We never got it. We never said "woah, wait-wait-wait-wait! This isn't the right thing to do." And we're still struggling with it. // JAMES CAMERON: And they fall because of a failure of leadership or, or government often. // GEORGE LUCAS: Yep. // JAMES CAMERON: And you, you have a great line which is "So this is how liberty dies..." // GEORGE LUCAS: [[Wikipedia:United States presidential election, 2016|We're in the middle of it.]] // JAMES CAMERON: "...With thunderous applause." Exactly. It's the pi... there was the condemnation of the nation of populism in a science fiction context.|archivedate=20200625040428}}</ref>

==Appearances==
*''[[Star Wars Journal: The Fight for Justice]]'' {{Imo}}
*''[[Jedi's Honor]]'' {{Imo}}
*''[[Splinter of the Mind's Eye]]'' {{1stm}} {{Imo}}
*[[Star Wars (1977) 68|''Star Wars'' (1977) 68]] {{Po}} {{Flash}} {{Ret}}
*{{Film|VI}} {{Imo}}
*[[Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (novel)|''Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi'' novel]] {{Imo}}
*[[Return of the Jedi (radio)|''Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi'' radio drama]] {{Imo}}
*[[Return of the Jedi 3|''Return of the Jedi'' 3]] {{Imo}}
*''[[The Truce at Bakura]]'' {{Imo}}
*''[[Dark Force Rising]]'' {{Imo}}
*[[The Last Command 5|''The Last Command 5'' comic]] {{1st}} {{C|Depicted in painting}}
*''[[I, Jedi]]'' {{Imo}}
*''[[Planet of Twilight]]'' {{Imo}}
*''[[Before the Storm]]'' {{Imo}}
*''[[Shield of Lies]]'' {{Imo}}
*''[[Tyrant's Test]]'' {{Imo}}

==Sources==
{{Mediacat|soundcat=Audio files of Padmé Amidala|imagecat=Images of Padmé Amidala}}
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*''[[Star Wars Official Poster Monthly]]''
*<!-- 1987/09/08 -->''[[Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays]]''
*<!-- 1992/06 -->''[[Heir to the Empire Sourcebook]]'' {{Imo}}
*<!-- 1996 -->''[[The Thrawn Trilogy Sourcebook]]'' {{Imo}}
*{{GalaxyCite|12|Galactic Bazaar|Galactic Bazaar: Leia Rules}} {{Imo}}
*<!-- 1998 -->{{KennerCite|set=Star Wars: The Power of the Force (1995 toy line)|text=''Star Wars: The Power of the Force''|pack=Princess Leia (in Ceremonial Dress)|link=POTF2leiaceremonial.asp|archivedate=20190902181501}} {{Po}}

==Notes and references==
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==External links==
*{{WP|Padmé Amidala}}
*{{Imdb|url=character/ch0000027|text=Padmé Amidala}}
*[http://www.rebelshaven.com/SWFFAQ/ Star Wars: Fit for a Queen]

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