


The books are noted for containing many popular culture references from the 2000s that influence some of the plot. The series follows Mia's life throughout high school in the 2000s and juggling regular teenage life with being a royal princess.

The series revolves around Amelia 'Mia' Thermopolis, a teenager in New York who discovers that she is the princess of a small European principality called Genovia. The series spent 48 weeks on the New York Times Children's Series Best Sellers List. The Princess Diaries is a series of epistolary young adult novels written by Meg Cabot, and is also the title of the first volume, published in 2000. The Princess Diaries, Volume II: Princess in the Spotlight
