Breha Organa/Legends

Breha Antilles Organa was the wife of Bail Organa and both Queen and Minister of Education of Alderaan.

Biography
She was a member of the influential Alderaanian House of Antilles. She was the ruler of Alderaan, being the daughter of former Senator Bail Antilles. She is also the sister of Captain Raymus Antilles.

Breha and her husband, Bail Organa, had many difficulties in producing a child and heir. She had at least two miscarriages, the last being in 21 BBY. After that, her doctors informed her that another attempt to conceive would probably kill her.

In 19 BBY, she and her husband adopted Leia Amidala Skywalker, the newborn daughter of Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala. Through adoption, Leia became Princess Leia Organa.

Soon after the formation of the Galactic Empire, she and Bail also adopted the orphaned Winter when both Winter's parents, Sheltay Retrac (Bail's former Senatorial Aide) and an unknown Alderaanian artist, died.

Queen Breha also served as the Minister of Education and, although it is possible that she died in the destruction of Alderaan in 0 BBY, it is more likely that she died when Leia was a child, as Leia speaks of being raised by Bail Organa's three sisters, Tia, Rouge, and Celly, whom Leia describes as "three redoubtable dowagers" who "made her girlhood an intermittent burden," rather than by any wife of Bail Organa.

Behind the scenes

 * Breha Organa was portrayed by Rebecca Jackson Mendoza in Revenge of the Sith.
 * In early drafts of Star Wars, "Queen Breha" was the name given to the mother of the fourteen year-old Princess Leia.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Republic 61: Dead Ends
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
 * Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader
 * Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi novelization