Bail Organa, while a member of the Galactic Senate, was also royalty on Alderaan. Princess Leia Organa was, as his adopted daughter, a member of the house of Organa. This is some basic shit, dude.

Anakin turns to the dark side because he sees it as a way to cheat death. Specifically, as a way to “stop people from dying,” specifically Padme, who he’s seen in danger in his visions (whether those visions are planted by Darth Sidious or simply a self-fulfilling prophecy or really just bad dreams is, I believe,…

The new movies acknowledge the prequels. Kylo Ren mentions a clone army in the first one and Luke briefly recounts the rise of Darth Sidious in the new one. There’s not a lot of reason to dwell on those events 50something years later, honestly.