The Princess Diaries
The Princess Diaries: Take Two
The Princess Diaries: Third Time Lucky
All American Girl
The Princess Diaries: Give Me Five
The Princess Diaries: Six Appeal
Nicola and the Viscount
Victoria and the Rogue
The Princess Diaries:
Mia Goes Fourth
Meg Cabot
Many thanks to the usual suspects: Beth Ader, Jennifer Brown, Barb Cabot, Sarah Davies, Laura Langlie,
Abby McAden, David Walton and especially Benjamin Egwatz. Special thanks to the Beckham family,
specifically Julie, for so generously allowing me the use of Molly's sock-swallowing habit!
'If
I
even if I am only a pretend princess, I can invent little things to do for people. Things Eke this.
She was just as happy as if it was largess. I'll pretend that to do things people like is scattering largess.'
Friday, January 1, Midnight,
Royal Genovian Bedchamber
My New Year's Resolutions
by Princess Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo
aged 14 and 8 months
1. I will stop biting my fingernails, including the fake ones.
2. I will stop lying. Grandmere knows when I am lying anyway, thanks to my traitorous nostrils which flare every
time I tell a fib, so it's not like there is even a point in trying to be less than truthful.
3. I will never veer from the prepared script while delivering televised addresses to the Genovian public.
4. I will stop accidentally saying French swear words in front of the ladies-in-waiting.
5. I will stop letting Francois, my Genovian bodyguard, teach me French swear words.
6. I will apologize to the Genovian Olive Growers' Association for that thing with the pits.
7. I will apologize to the Royal Chef for slipping Grandmere's dog that slice of foie gras (even though I have told the
palace kitchen repeatedly that I do not eat meat).
8. I will stop lecturing the Royal Genovian Press Corps on the evils of paparrazism.
9. I will achieve self-actualization.
10. I will stop thinking so much about Michael Moscovitz.
Oh, wait. It's OK for me to think about Michael Moscovitz, BECAUSE HE IS MY BOYFRIEND NOW!!!!!!!!
MT + MM = TRUE LOVE4-EVER
Saturday, January 2,
Royal Genovian Parliament
You know, I am supposed to be on vacation. Seriously. I mean, this is my Winter Break. I am supposed to be having
fun, mentally recharging for the coming semester, which is not going to be easy, as I will be moving on to Algebra II,
not to mention Health and Safety class. Every other kid I know is spending his or her Winter Break in Aspen, skiing,
or in Miami, getting tanned.
But me? What am
Oh, well, right now I am just sitting in on a session of the Royal Genovian Parliament, pretending to be paying attention
while these really old guys in wigs go on about whether or not to give free parking to the patrons of Genovia's many casinos.
Oh, yeah. That's a good way to spend the precious few weeks I have off from school. At this rate I will absolutely return to New York well-rested and ready for whatever awaits me in my second semester of my freshman year at Albert Einstein
High School. Thanks, Dad. Thanks, Grandmere. Thanks so much.
No one even wants to hear my opinion about the whole parking thing, of course. That if we don't charge for parking it will encourage more people to drive over the French and Italian borders instead of taking the train, clogging up Genovia's
already very busy streets and causing yet more strain on our infrastructure.
But why should
anyone be interested in what
is appropriate.
Fine, whatever. Like I care. I am pretending to take notes, since Grandmere told me I had to, as one day I will be sitting
in my dad's chair (sadly not the throne - that is in the throne room back at the palace) in the front of Parliament and have
