Breha Organa/Legends

Breha Antilles Organa was the wife of Bail Prestor Organa and the adopted mother of Leia Organa Solo. Breha was both Queen and Minister of Education of Alderaan and did not survive the destruction of her homeworld.

Biography
Breha was a member of the influential Alderaanian House of Antilles. She was considered Queen of Alderaan after her marriage to Prince Bail Organa.

Breha and her husband 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, 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, Bail's former senatorial aide Sheltay Retrac and an unknown Alderaanian artist, died.

Queen Breha also served as the Minister of Education and it is almost certain that she died in the destruction of Alderaan in 0 BBY based on Leia's own recollections of "mother" some years later. Conversely, there is some evidence to suggest that Breha may have died when Leia was a smal child. Leia may have been mistakenly referring to the Queen, when her brother, Jedi Luke Skywalker, asked Leia about Leia's memories of her real mother on Endor in Return of the Jedi. (Leia was a new born when Senator Padme' Amidala died immeidately after childbirth and it is unlikely that Leia woul have remembere her biological mother from the brief encounter at the end of Revenge of the Sith). Further, Leia spoke of being raised by Bail Organa's three sisters (Tia, Rouge, and Celly, whom she described as "three redoubtable dowagers" who "made her girlhood an intermittent burden"), rather than by Queen Breha or any other wife of Bail Organa.

Behind the scenes
Breha Organa was portrayed by Rebecca Jackson Mendoza in Revenge of the Sith.

Breha's costume was originally going to be made of velvet, but the fabric was changed so that it would not be too dark.

In the rough draft of Star Wars, "Queen Breha" was the name given to the mother of the fourteen-year-old Princess Leia, and wife of King Kayos of Aquilae.

According to What's The Story? author Aidan Hennessy, his Pello Scrambas entry was supposed to indicate that Breha and Bail's marriage was arranged by Jorus C'baoth to end the Alderaan Ascendancy Contention.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Republic 61: Dead Ends
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith comic
 * Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader
 * Star Wars 53: The Last Gift From Alderaan
 * Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi novel
 * Before the Storm