She`s just a New York City girl living with her artist mom... News Flash: Dad is prince of Genovia. (So that`s why a limo meets her at the airport!) Downer: Dad can`t have any more kids. (So no heir to the throne.) Shock of the Century: Like it or not, Mia Thermopolis is prime princess material. Mia must take princess lessons from her dreaded grandmere, the dowager princess of Genovia, who thinks Mia has a thing or two to learn before she steps up to the throne. 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. But what`s a girl to do when her name is Princess Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo?