This fact forces him to tell Mia that he is not just some Genovian politician, but the Prince of Genovia. 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. 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 (paternal grandmother) Clarisse's French chateau, Miragnac. Her best friend is Lilly Moscovitz, a genius, and she is obsessed with her crushes, Josh Richter and Lilly's brother, Michael. Mia is a tall, flat chested, big footed socially awkward teenager who was raised by her liberal artist mother Helen in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. The Princess Diaries is the diary of Mia Thermopolis, a fifteen-year-old freshman at the fictional Albert Einstein High School (A.E.H.S.), a private school in New York City.

This book begins on Tuesday, September 23 and concludes on Sunday, October 19 (these dates imply that the book takes place in 2003, though this is not directly stated). It was released in 2000 by Harper Collins Publishers, and later became a film of the same name starring Anne Hathaway loosely adapting it and the second novels. Princess in the Spotlight The Princess Diaries is the first volume of the critically acclaimed, best-selling series of the same name by Meg Cabot.

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