![]() To save Mia a trip to the police station (she was driving without a license), Queen Clarisse appoints the police man and trolley master to the "Genovian Order of the Rose" (a fictitious Chivalric order she devised on the spot). No one is injured, but two nuns call the police. While driving back to the Genovian consulate, Mia's car fails on a hill and rams into one of San Francisco's famous cable cars loaded with people. However, he realized his love for his country was greater. Mia asks her grandmother if her father wanted to be prince she replies he did but that he thought of abdicating only once-when he fell in love with Helen. She takes a test drive with her grandmother and they go to an arcade. Mia is almost sixteen, so she is almost able to drive a car (her "baby", a vintage Ford Mustang). The following day, Mia agrees to appear on Lilly's public-access television program Shut Up and Listen, and to watch Michael's band perform at a venue that Saturday night. Mia attends, but publicly humiliates herself and her grandmother with her clumsiness. Although thoroughly annoyed, Queen Clarisse presses onward and prepares for the State Dinner. The San Francisco Chronicle however learns that Mia is the Genovian Crown Princess after Paolo violates his confidentiality agreement. Mia makes Lilly promise not to tell anyone (including Michael) that she is a princess, because the Queen wants to keep everything a secret until the ball as to avoid a frenzy with the press. Mia breaks down and tells Lilly everything, changing her friends' attitude completely. Mia's frequent absence begins to put Lilly on-edge, and after Mia receives a makeover from Italian hairdresser Paolo ( Larry Miller), Lilly confronts her and accuses her of trying to be like the popular girls. Mia begins seeing her grandmother everyday after school for her lessons, which include table manners, dancing, and personal presentation. The Queen gives Mia a limousine to use as well as her own bodyguard, Joseph "Joe" ( Hector Elizondo), the Queen's head of security. Helen convinces Mia to attend "princess lessons" with the Queen, who tells Mia need not have to make her decision on accepting the throne until the annual Genovian Independence Day ball. She also explains that Mia needs to be presented as their princess at the upcoming Genovian State Dinner. Queen Clarisse visits Mia and Helen and explains that if Mia refuses the throne, Genovia will be without a ruler. She is shocked to learn that she is in fact a princess and runs away, rejecting the notion. Mia learns that her father was Crown Prince of Genovia and, due to his recent death, she is now next and sole heir to the Genovian throne. ![]() Queen Clarisse explains that the reason she wanted to see her was because of a "life-changing" problem. Mia meets her grandmother, Queen Clarisse Renaldi ( Julie Andrews), at the Genovian consulate for the first time in her life. ![]() A few weeks before Mia's sixteenth birthday, Mia learns her paternal grandmother is visiting from Genovia, a small European kingdom. Mia, however, has one best friend: Lilly Moscovitz ( Heather Matarazzo) as well as Lilly's brother Michael ( Robert Schwartzman). She is seemingly invisible to her crush, Josh Bryant ( Erik von Detten) and his cheerleader girlfriend Lana Thomas ( Mandy Moore). Mia is an average, plain-looking student, but extremely unpopular. Mia Thermopolis ( Anne Hathaway) is a fifteen-year-old tenth grade private school student who lives with her mother Helen Thermopolis ( Caroline Goodall) and her cat, Fat Louie, in a renovated San Francisco firehouse. ![]() She must decide by Genovia's Independence Day Ball whether she longs to relinquish her claim on the throne or to become the Princess and heir to the throne her father, Philippe Renaldi (Rene Auberjonois), and grandmother want her to be. On top of all of that, Mia has a choice to make. Things get out of hand when the media gets a hold of the story and suddenly Mia is thrust into the spotlight in the newspapers and in school. She's being taught about scarves, waves, and pears in order to become a perfect Princess, she gets a makeover and a tough looking, yet sweet bodyguard and limo driver called Joe (Hector Elizondo). Suddenly Mia's life is thrown into complete overload. Making it through high school without throwing up is a challenge in itself for Mia, so it doesn't come as welcome news when her estranged grandmother, Queen Clarisse Renaldi (Dame Julie Andrews), shows up out of the blue and calmly informs her that she is in fact the heir to the throne of a European country called Genovia. Mia Thermopolis (Anne Hathaway) is the average teenager - sweet, a little geeky, and pretty much invisible to everyone with the exception of her mother, best friend Lilly (Heather Matarazzo) and Lilly's older brother Michael (Robert Schwartzman). ![]()
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