"I always thought that it was... well not better, obviously." She didn't want Alderaan to be gone. So many people had died. Stinking was a mild description of Tarkin given that.

"But I thought I would have made a terrible princess. But we kept getting thrown into situations where I needed to remember all those boring diplomatic events I spent wanting to punch Councilor Fey'lya and I eventually realized maybe I could handle those things better than I thought."

For one thing, she never actually punched him.