Five years after the first film, Mia Thermopolis graduates from Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs at Princeton University, returning to Genovia. There, she awaits her grandmother, Queen Clarisse’s abdication. Dancing with all eligible bachelors at her 21st birthday party to find a husband, she meets a dashing young gentleman named Nicholas, and the two become mutually attracted. During the evening, Mia’s tiara falls off, caught by Member of Parliament (MP), Viscount Mabrey, who secretly plans to steal the crown.
During the Parliamentary session the next morning, Mia hears Mabrey revealing his nephew, Lord Devereaux, to be the next male heir to the throne. By law, Mia can only be queen if she marries within the month. Clarisse invites Lord Devereaux to stay at the palace, and Mia is shocked to discover he is Nicholas. Her best friend, Lilly Moscovitz, surprises her with a visit. Mia eventually chooses Andrew Jacoby, Duke of Kenilworth, and days later, they are engaged. Mabrey plans to have Nicholas seduce Mia so the engagement will fail. Joe, the royal family’s head of security, tries to persuade Clarisse to publicly pursue their feelings for each other as her days as queen is coming to an end.
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Mia has to ride sidesaddle for a ceremony but is inexperienced, so Clarisse provides an ancestral wooden leg decoy so it seems she’s doing so. When Mabrey spooks Mia’s horse with a rubber snake, Joe inadvertently tears off the wooden leg. Humiliated, she flees to the stables, where Nicholas fails to comfort her. At a garden party, Mia and Nicholas quarrel about her relationship with Andrew. Clarisse tells Mia that her behavior with Nicholas has to stop.
At the Genovian Independence Day parade, seeing some boys harassing a little girl, Mia abruptly halts the parade to help. Learning the girl, Carolina, and the others are orphans, she has a vendor give them all tiaras and lets them walk with her in the parade. Nicholas is struck by Mia’s care for Genovia and begins doubting taking over the throne. Mia later declares the conversion of a royal palace into a temporary children’s center.
Nicholas convinces Mia to sneak out. By a lake, they share secrets, dance, and eventually fall asleep. Mia thinks Nicholas set her up, while he insists he had no idea. The scandalous footage is already being broadcast before she returns. Disappointed, Andrew kisses Mia to see if there is a romantic spark between them. They do not call off the wedding for the good of Genovia. At the wedding, surprises lead to a change in the law on royal marriages and a new era for Genovia.
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