Question: are palpatine and skywalker related?
Answer: Since the 2000s prequel trilogy, and according to the 2018 comic book Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith written by Charles Soule and Giuseppe Camuncoli, it has been implied that Shmi Skywalker's impregnation was the result of Palpatine influencing the Force to do so, making Palpatine the ancestor to Anakin Skywalker.