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Queen Amidala: Headcanon About Naboo “Royalty”

The Naboo royalty is one of the most fascinating bits of the worldbuilding the Prequel Trilogy gives us, because it’s so weird. And people don’t really … grapple with that very much, even in fic, but tend to take it for granted. We have an elected monarch (and why give an elected official a hereditary title?!?) who wears elaborate ceremonial robes and elaborate ceremonial makeup that literally nobody else in their society wears. This person has a reign name that is not the name they grew up with, and which they will keep as their primary professional name even after they are no longer monarch. And even their personal name seems to have changed. (There are two choices–either all the handmaiden’s names were changed to match Padmé, or all of them including Padmé changed their names.)

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