She is no longer just Mia Thermopolis: she is Princess Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo, Mia cries at this information and flees for the Central Park Zoo. Her father explains that because she is now the sole heir to the throne of Genovia that she must move there and learn to be a princess so that she can take over his duties if he dies. Mia meets with her father at the Plaza and he tells her he is the Prince of Genovia. Mia's mother tells her that she needs to meet with her father because he has been rendered infertile due to his testicular cancer and chemotherapy treatments. Mia's father, who lives in Europe, calls, and Mia assumes that something is wrong and that her grandmother has died. Mia admits to herself (but not Lilly) that she finds Michael attractive.

Michael flirts with Mia, but she doesn't realize until Lilly points it out later. Mia spends time at her best friend Lilly's house with Lilly and her older brother Michael, who is a senior. Mia is terrorized at school by a fellow freshman, Lana, who is popular and on the cheerleading squad who is also dating a senior named Josh Richter, who is the hottest guy in school and whom Mia has a crush on. Mia cannot believe her mother is going out with her algebra teacher, Mr. Helen Thermopolis gives her fourteen year old daughter, Mia, a diary to keep her feelings in, as she feels Mia cannot discuss them with her. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.' A Little Princess, Francis Hodgson Burnettīegins on Tuesday, Septemand concludes on Sunday, Octo(these dates imply that the book takes place in 2003, though this is not directly stated) and occurs during Mia's freshman year. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside.

'Whatever comes,' she said, 'cannot alter one thing. But what's a girl to do when her name is PRINCESS AMELIA MIGNONETTE GRIMALDI THERMOPOLIS RENALDO? Well, her father can lecture her until he's royal–blue in the face about her princessly duty-no way is she moving to Genovia and leaving Manhattan behind. THE WORST PART: Mia must take princess lessons from her dreaded Grandmère, the dowager princess of Genovia, who thinks Mia has a thing or two to learn before she steps up to the throne. SHOCK OF THE CENTURY: Like it or not, Mia Thermopolis is prime princess material. (So that's why a limo meets her at the airport!)ĭOWNER: Dad can't have any more kids.

She's just a New York City girl living with her artist mom…

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