Best Movies About Fictional Royals: ‘Princess Diaries,’ More

Whereas not everyone seems to be fortunate sufficient to be born with royal blood, celebs can a minimum of play dress up in tiaras and gowns whereas portraying fictional royals.

When The Princess Diaries was launched in July 2001, followers went loopy for the made-up kingdom of Genovia. First launched in Meg Cabot‘s novel of the identical identify, the small nation — nestled proper between Spain and France — was well-known for its pears … and its spunky rulers.

Within the movie, Mia Thermopolis (performed by an cute younger Anne Hathaway) has her life turned the wrong way up when her grandmother Queen Clarisse Renaldi (Julie Andrews) seems in San Francisco to disclose that the excessive schooler is the inheritor to the Genovian crown. Earlier than she will declare the throne, nevertheless, Mia should endure some “princess classes.”

Three years later, the Ocean’s 8 actress reprised her beloved character in The Princess Diaries 2. Whereas she advised Glamour in December 2012 that she felt she was “labeled an excellent woman” due to the function — inflicting her to must struggle for extra severe elements she wished — Hathaway and her costars would return to Genovia in an instant.

“There is a script for the third movie,” the Satan Wears Prada star mentioned throughout a January 2019 episode of Watch What Occurs Dwell With Andy Cohen. “I need to do it. Julie desires to do it. Debra Martin Chase, our producer, desires to do it. All of us actually need it to occur. It’s simply we don’t need to until it’s good, as a result of we adore it simply as a lot as you guys adore it. It’s as essential to us as it’s to you, and we don’t need to ship something till it’s prepared.”

Fortunately, whereas the world waits to meet up with Princess Mia, there are many different fictional kingdoms to dive into. Netflix struck gold in November 2018 after they solid Vanessa Hudgens in The Princess Swap, through which the Excessive College Musical actress plays both a royal and a normal woman who (unsurprisingly) look remarkably comparable and resolve to modify locations. No princess film is full with out a romance, and the 2 beauties find yourself falling in love with males from one another’s worlds — a contented ending that was examined within the 2020 sequel The Princess Swap: Switched Once more.

“The story shifting ahead is that relationships aren’t all the time straightforward — that even if you happen to’re a prince and a princess, there are pressures and the highlight and there’s relationship struggles,” Sam Palladio, who performs Prince Edward within the movies, told Us Weekly exclusively in November 2020.

Whereas a brand new little prince or princess could also be within the playing cards for an upcoming movie, the Nashville alum shared that he’s in the end proud of the route potential scripts are headed in — infants or not.

“I believe these motion pictures are about household, love and friendship, and I believe a transparent [next] step can be one thing like that,” he advised Us. “I believe there’s positively components of that that might be actually enjoyable, however having learn some early drafts and issues, there’s additionally some very surprising twists and turns.”

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