Palpatine is so great at lying but somehow his biggest coups are when he doesn’t have to
Think of all the holos he has of Anakin and Padme, just from random events he organized. He’d slip a note to the DJ and then suddenly there’s a call for all the Jedi who are Heroes of Naboo and all the former Queens of Naboo to come to the dance floor for a special song.
Leia fumes as she watches her parents slow dancing and pretending not to feel each other up.
HOW IS THAT SO SWEET BUT SO HORRIBLE
Leia’s sense of self-indentity is shattered to the GFFA equivalent of “Lady in Red”