The Princess Diaries Page #3

- Straighten up the royal bed chamber.

After the divorce,

we all discussed it.

Your father and your grandmother

both agreed to keep their distance,

so you'd have a chance

of a normal childhood.

Free of emotional complications.

We were going to tell you

when you were 18.

But when your father died,

things changed, Mia.

We wanted to protect you.

OK, you know what?

I don't feel protected.

You try living for 15 years

thinking you're one person

and in five minutes you find out

you're a princess.

Just in case I'm not enough

of a freak already, let's add a tiara.

- Drink your soup.

- I'm not really hungry.

Fine. Good night, sweetheart.

Fat Louie... you are so lucky you

don't know who your parents are.

I've never ridden in a limo,

he admitted bitterly to himself

as he crossed to the open window

and looked out at the bay.

The fog looming

like his pathetic life before him.

I can't believe I won an Emmy.

I have this favorite photo of Philippe.

We had so much fun here in college.

He was so full of joie de vivre,

always laughing and smiling.

I remember.

Helen, if Amelia refuses

to accept the throne,

Genovia will cease to exist

as we know it.

So the future of your country

is in the hands of my 15 year old?

Here it is.

Philippe was ready to be king.

Then the terrible accident.

Even though it didn't work out

between us,

- I loved your son very much.

- Thank you.

Well, as always,

this is as good as it's gonna get.

I can't wait until she's 18.

This is a nightmare.

I'm going back to bed.

The three of us have to talk.

OK. ls there something else

about me and my life

that I might want to know about?

Are you two waiting

to take me on a talk show

to let me know I have a twin sister

who's a duchess?

You have a cousin who's a contessa.

Fondly known as Bartholomew.

Actually, we call him Pookie.

Yesterday did not go well.

Will you listen to your grandmother?

Amelia, in a matter of weeks

we have an annual ball.

I was... I am hoping

that I may present you to the press

and the public on that occasion.

However, you desperately need

some instruction.

I speak for the entire Genovian

parliament and the royal family.

And I speak for this family.

Excuse me. I don't have a family

with either one of you,

because you ignored me for 15 years

and you lied to me.

Families don't do stuff like that

to one another, OK?

- Where is she going?

- The tower.

- Mia, you can't run from everything.

- She has a tower?

Please, just come down from there.

Most kids hope for a car for their

16th birthday, not a country.

Just make yourself comfortable.

This is getting us nowhere.

Talk to me.

I can't, I'm late for a meeting

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