Darth Venal said:
As for Leia, why does there need to be an explanation? No-one else knew she existed, so no-one would be looking for her. As for her recollection of her mother, Leia was more than adequately vague in Jedi about what she remembers. She does actually say she doesn't really have memories, more "feelings". And that, for me, is perfectly fine. After all, it's obvious Bail Organa and her adopted mother didn't tell Leia the truth about her real parents, otherwise she'd already know. Therefore, they probably told her a sweet story about her mother dying when she was very young and they raised her as their own.

It's really not that difficult, and as much as I don't like the prequels, I don't believe there is any continuity error with Leia's "remembrance" of her mother.

That I do not buy.

Leia clearly states that her mother died when she was very young and remembers images as well as feelings.

Newborn babies don't remember those sort of details they don't have the necessary internal mechansism and if anyone starts splurting nonsense about her latent Force abilities or her talking about her step mother I shall get Paddington Bear on them and give them a hard stare through this screen.

It was yet another fluck up on Lucas' part, pure and simple.

Neither ROTJ or ROTS are perfect films, they both have the faults and their undeniable charms but at the end of the day I have more of an investment in Carrie Fisher's performance than Nat Portman's (she took some very stupid lines and made them sparkle through force of personality even in Jedi) so I would rather try and fix this in the PT than in the OT but it does need fixing.