vaderios said:
The little girl that appears in the funeral has no purpose at all....

Maybe we can use that for Leia.

-Angel

She would be important for people who want to use the deleted scenes from AOTC to pad Padme's half of the romance out because she appears in those deleted scenes as Padme's niece but otherwise yeah, would it be OTT to give her the hairy headphones?

Would Vader think she was dead or would she still be openly alive (but lost the child) and he can't reveal himself to her because of his new persona?

If Padme did live on how would she eventually die?

Assassin, disease, mercy mission?