Title The Princess Diaries

The Princess Diaries (UK cover)
Author	Meg Cabot
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

Main article: The Princess Diaries

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. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (471x743, 56 KB) Summary Book cover from The Princess Diaries. ... Meg Cabot (born Meggin Patricia Cabot on February 1, 1967) is an American author of romantic comedies for teens and adults. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Chick lit is a term used to denote genre fiction written for and marketed to young women, especially single, working women in their twenties and thirties. ... A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended, generally fictional narrative, typically in prose. ... HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by Rupert Murdochs News Corporation. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... Meg Cabot as pictured at a British book signing for The Princess Diaries. ... Meg Cabot as pictured at a British book signing for The Princess Diaries. ... Meg Cabot as pictured at a British book signing for The Princess Diaries. ... Meg Cabot (born Meggin Patricia Cabot on February 1, 1967) is an American author of romantic comedies for teens and adults. ... The Princess Diaries is a comedy-drama film and the screen adaptation of Meg Cabots 2000 novel of the same name. ... Anne Hathaway can refer to at least two people: Anne Hathaway, an American actress, star of The Princess Diaries films and Ella Enchanted Anne Hathaway, the wife of William Shakespeare Anne received critical acclaim for her role as Jack Twists [played by Jake Gyllenhaal] wife in Brokeback Mountain, a controversial...

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. Ninth grade (called Grade nine in some regions) is a year of education in the United States and many other nations. ... American liberalism—that is, liberalism in the United States of America—is a broad political and philosophical mindset, favoring individual liberty, and opposing restrictions on liberty, whether they come from established religion, from government regulation, from the existing class structure, or from multi-national corporations. ... The Washington Square Arch Greenwich Village (IPA pronunciation: ), also called simply the Village, is a largely residential area on the west side of downtown (southern) Manhattan in New York City named after Greenwich, London. ... The Borough of Manhattan, highlighted in yellow, lies between the East River and the Hudson River. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup because: It does not accurately define the differences which exist between the Genovia of The Princess Diaries series and the Genovia of The Princess Diaries film and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement. ... Château de Chenonceau A rural château in France. ...

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. Testicular cancer is a type of cancer that develops in the testicles, a part of the male reproductive system. ... Royal Highness (abbreviation HRH) is a style (His Royal Highness or Her Royal Highness). ...

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. Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic  - President George Walker Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from... Greenpeace protest against Esso / Exxon Mobil. ...

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.