Star Wars: Leia, Princess of Alderaan including Grand Moff Tarkin, Mon Mothma, Amilyn Holdo, and Quarsh Panaka. Gray explained how Kier Domadi, Leia's first love, compares to the character's future husband, Han Solo: Star Wars: Leia, Princess of Alderaan Star Wars: Leia, Princess of Alderaan is a "Star Wars" novel by Claudia Gray, published by Disney Lucasfilm Press on September 1, 2017 as part of the publishing initiative. It chronicles the teen years of Princess Leia before the events of the 1977 film "Star Wars", which introduced the character. Sixteen-year-old Princess Leia Organa of the planet Alderaan finds that her parents, Queen Breha and Viceroy Bail
Alderaan been reduced to a cloud of asteroids as the "Millennium Falcon" spaceship attempts to visit the planet. The destruction of Alderaan meant that it was not depicted in subsequent "Star Wars" films until the series of prequel films was produced. The planet made its first on-screen appearance since 1977 in "" (2005), when it featured briefly at the end of the film. The adopted father of Princess Leia, Bail Organa (Jimmy Smits) is seen piloting a starship to the planet's surface, which is shown as a mountainous, alpine region covered in snow. Landing his ship in a citadel among the