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Biography:

Separated at an early age from a mother she barely knew
and a heritage that was hidden from her, Leia Organa was
raised as the daughter of Viceroy and First Chairman of the
planet Alderaan, Bail Organa, a hero of the Clone Wars.
Leia grew up in a highly-charged political atmosphere and
watched as Senator Palpatine took increasing control of the
galactic government, eventually declaring himself Emperor.

She became the youngest Senator in galactic history, even
as Palpatine committed more and more atrocities in the
name of pacifying the galaxy.

Leia is at the heart of many of the Rebel Alliance's most
secret missions, using her consular ship, the Tantive IV to
travel throughout the galaxy with diplomatic immunity. Near
Tatooine, on a mission to recruit General Obi-Wan Kenobi
into the Rebellion, she and her ship are captured by the
Darth Vader's Star Destroyer Devastator. Leia manages to
get top-secret intercepted plans for the Death Star battle
station to Alliance forces, but not without paying a supreme
price: the destruction of her home planet of Alderaan.

After the Battle of Yavin, Leia becomes a full-time leader of
the Rebel Alliance. Those who have rescued her from a
Death Star cell, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and the Wookiee
Chewbacca - along with the droids R2-D2 and C-3PO -
become a kind of second family to her. She helps lead the
evacuation of the Rebel's Echo Base on Hoth and travels in
Solo's Millennium Falcon to Cloud City above Bespin to
repair the ship. But Solo's old gambling buddy, Lando
Calrissian, betrays them.

Months later, Leia enters the palace of Jabba the Hutt in a
bounty hunter disguise and manages to free Solo from his
carbonite prison, but Jabba discovers her and reduces her
to one of his slave girls. She soon seizes an opportunity to
choke the crime lord to death, then joins Solo on a strike
team to Endor to destroy a generator for a shield that
protects a second Death Star. She needs all her diplomatic
skills to gain the help of a primitive tribe of Ewoks that they
encounter, but the Rebels persevere and Leia is brought to
the threshold of amazing discoveries about herself and her
family.

The above description of Princess Leia was written by starwars.com