Though there seems to be a connection between the two characters in the first prequel, they don’t become romantically involved in any way until the sequel, “Star Wars: Episode 2 — Attack of the Clones.” At this point in the story, both are a full ten years older, with Anakin being 19 and Padme being 24, which is a much more appropriate version of that same age gap from the first movie.
Unfortunately, given the tragic nature of Anakin’s eventual fall to the Dark Side, the two would only have a few years to spend together before death parted them. Padme died at the age of 27, and Anakin was horribly maimed for life in a battle with Obi-Wan at the age of 22.
While the “Star Wars” timeline can be extremely complicated by how many events have occurred in a short period of time and how much they cross over with one another, fans can take some comfort that the doomed lovers did have a few years of happiness before Anakin embraced the Dark Side. Of course, it helps that Padme had two kids before she died, and they offered something of A New Hope for The Return of the Jedi.
