The Princess Diaries (novel)
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| Author | Meg Cabot |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | The Princess Diaries |
| Genre(s) | Chick-lit novel |
| Publisher | HarperTrophy |
| Released | 2000 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 304 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-380-81402-1 |
| Followed by | The Princess Diaries, Volume II: Princess in the Spotlight |
The Princess Diaries is the first volume of the critically acclaimed, best-selling series of the same name (see series) by Meg Cabot. It was released in 2000 by Harper Collins Publishers, and later became a film of the same name starring Anne Hathaway.
[edit] Plot summary
The Princess Diaries is the diary of Mia Thermopolis, a fourteen-year-old freshman at the fictional Albert Einstein High School, a private school in New York City. Mia is a tall, socially awkward teenager who was raised by her liberal artist mother Helen in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. Her parents had a brief fling and separated before she was born; she sees her father Phillipe Renaldo, whom she is told is a Genovian politician, mostly when she spends every summer at her grandmère (grandmother) Clarisse's French chateau, Miragnac.
Mia's world is thrown upside down when her father, who recently underwent treatment for testicular cancer, finds out he cannot have any more children. This fact forces him to tell Mia that he is not just some Genovian politician, but indeed, none other than the Prince of Genovia. Because Mia is his only child, and his cancer has prohibited him from having any more children, he informs her that she is now Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo, Her Royal Highness, the princess, and soon to be queen, of Genovia.
Mia does not adjust to this news easily; but she certainly objects when her father informs her she must now move to Genovia to learn to be a princess. Eventually, Grandmère decides to come to America to provide "princess lessons," which her father offers to pay her for. Mia declines, but asks instead that her father donate a hundred dollars a day to Greenpeace.
Also, all the while Mia is secretly in love with her best friend, Lily's brother, Michael who is a senior [in the first book] and doesn't really think much of Mia except that she is his little sister's best friend.
Crew: Garry Marshall (director) · Debra Martin Chase (producer) · Whitney Houston (producer) · Gina Wendkos (screenwriter)
Cast: Julie Andrews as Clarisse Renaldi · Anne Hathaway as Mia Thermopolis
Hector Elizondo as Joe · Heather Matarazzo as Lilly Moscovitz
Mandy Moore as Lana Thomas · Caroline Goodall as Helen Thermopolis
Robert Schwartzman as Michael Moscovitz · Erik von Detten as Josh Bryant
Novels: The Princess Diaries book series · Meg Cabot
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