Rouge Organa Rouge Organa was a female Human who was a member of the Organa family of Alderaan and the sister of Bail , Celly and Tia Organa , as well as the adopted aunt of Leia Organa . A strict dowager , Rouge helped her brother raise the young Leia by inculcating her with the codes and protocol of high court life . In 0 BBY , Rouge Organa died in the destruction of Alderaan . Biography . Early years . A Human female , Rouge Organa was born in the last decades of the Galactic Republic on Alderaan , a planet of pristine beauty that had been and a center of culture and education for many a century . From birth , she was destined for a glamorous life , as the blood of the most noble and wealthy House Organa coursed through her veins . She was the daughter of the Viceroy Organa and one of four siblings , the others being Tia , Celly and Bail Prestor . When she finished school and came of age , Rouge was brought to a debutante ball on Coruscant , capital city of the Republic . By custom , young noblewomen attended levees in hopes they could find a suitable husband of high lineage . Eventually , Rouge Organa got married and started a family of her own . In the meantime , her brother Bail Prestor Organa went on to become the Viceroy and First Chairman of the Alderaan system and the husband of Queen Breha Antilles . A princess ' tutor . Following the end of the Clone Wars , a three - year galaxy - wide conflict , Rouge ' s brother adopted the late Senator Padmé Amidala ' s daughter , a baby called Leia . Rouge Organa and her two sisters , Tia and Celly , helped their brother raise his adopted child , moving to the Royal Palace of Aldera . By the time Leia was an infant , Rouge Organa had become a widow . Rouge and her sisters hired deportment teachers to tutor young Leia , wishing to make a " proper " princess out of their tombyish niece , including the redoubtable Madame Vesta , headmistress of Alderaan Select Academy for Young Ladies . The Organa sisters would often tend to the Princess ' dress and hair themselves , much to Leia ' s annoyance . In 1 BBY , Rouge accompanied Leia Organa , now a young adult and a Senator , to a levee on Coruscant along with her siblings . When her niece noticed the Galactic Emperor Palpatine ' s jeweled concubines and asked her about them , Rouge assumed a superior air and answered that a Princess was not obligated to speak with their sort . Dead with her planet . One year later , the Galactic Empire decided to subject all Alderaanians to a radical punishment , following their Viceroy ' s involvement with the Alliance to Restore the Republic . The Imperial Grand Moff Tarkin decided to use his new superweapon , the Death Star , to sow the seeds of terror and keep the seditious star systems in line . The peaceful planet Alderaan vanished with a single green blast from the Death Star ' s superlaser , with the captive Princess Leia watching in horror . Although her aunts had made her girlhood tough and sometimes unpleasant , Leia Organa was immediately struck with grief when she realized they were gone forever . Many years later , the Princess , now the Chief of State of a New Republic , would often remember her Aunt Rouge . Personality . Rouge Organa was a fair - skinned Human female who sported long hair that she kept bound , as was customary among Alderaanian adults , and would adorn them with flowers . In the evening , before dinner , she enjoyed having servants tending to her hair in front of a gilt - framed mirror in her boudoir . A refined woman born into wealth , Rouge Organa enjoyed wearing iridescent Old Republic bronze earrings , a taste she shared with her sisters . By contrast , she despised semi - dry wines , considering them unrefined and only good enough for space - hoppers . A gossipy and proud noblewoman , she overtly despised Palpatine ' s Imperial concubines . Rouge Organa valued patience , and she tried to inculcate this virtue into her niece . The dowager attached great importance to etiquette , and she would not hesitate to lecture other people of high - rank about their offspring ' s public behavior . She also had a very strict idea of the proper dress code for a self - respecting woman . Behind the scenes . Princess Leia ' s three dowager aunts were first mentioned in " Children of the Jedi " , is a 1995 novel written by Barbara Hambly . More specifically , Rouge Organa was mentioned by name eleven times throughout the novel , which is twice as much as Celly and more than thrice as much as Tia . Although Rouge , Tia and Celly Organa were created in the absence of a mother figure for the young Leia , early sources such as " " suggest that a woman whom Leia called " mother " survived until the destruction of Alderaan . In 1998 , Rouge Organa received a passing mention in Jude Watson ' s " " , a retelling of the events of from Princess Leia ' s point of view . In " The Princess Leia Diaries " , a short comic written by Jason Hall that appeared in " Star Wars Tales 11 " , Bail Organa ' s three sisters were pictured for the first time . However , Rouge Organa has not been clearly identified with any of the three aunts from the comic . Since the late Queen Mazicia Organa was stated to be Bail Organa ' s mother in " " , it is possible that she was also the mother of his sisters . However , that particular issue has not been addressed yet .