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[Star Wars: Episode 2] How is Padme such a resourceful and effective fighter?

Padme was queen of a planet of pacifists, and as of the time of Clone Wars, she still regularly uses body doubles and bodyguards from Naboo.  Starting in the area of Geonosis, she repeately demonstrates amazing fighting talents.  She's resourceful, physically strong, better than Storm Troopers with a blaster, firing instinctively (without aiming) and with one handed no less, displays excellent tactical ability later on, and is even able to survive an otherwise fatal fall from a great height at high speed and just keeps on going. I know the prequel trilogy is... shall we say highly criticized, but I'm wondering if anyone has a legit, in universe reason why a Senator, an aristocrat, a former queen of a pacifist, non-militarized world would have developed expert fighting talents.
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It’s covered in the novelization of Phantom Menace as well as a few other sources. The royal handmaidens of Naboo act as bodyguards and aides to the queen and have to go through extensive training in fighting. Think of them as the secret service. Padmé went through the same training since part of the security system for the queen involved the queen assuming the role of a handmaiden while the handmaiden acted as a decoy queen.