Sunday 15 May 2022

If You Are A Fan Of Star Wars,

you will recognise this lady,



Padmé Amidala Naberrie, who was a courageous, hopeful leader, serving as Queen and then Senator of Naboo, but what you may not know is that she was inspired by a real person, 

Queen Genepil of Mongolia was the last Queen Consort of the Bogd Khan, the spiritual monarch and leader of Mongolia,

 long after the Queen’s death, her surviving daughter Tserenkhand recalled the sudden disappearance of her mother as a child saying, “They took her away at night. She did not wake us, only left a piece of sugar on our pillows. I still remember the joy of a sudden discovery of that rare delicacy in the morning”, Queen Genepil (1905-1938) was the last queen of Mongolia, She was executed in May, 1938, shot as part of the systematic Stalinist destruction of Mongolian culture, in which a vast amount of the population were killed, including almost all the shamans and Buddhist lamas, but I guess in some way her memory lives on in the character of Padmé Amidala Naberrie.


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