History Literature / ThePrincessDiaries

* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler: Lana]] TookALevelInKindness after [[spoiler: Mia and Michael break up]], because she knows exactly what Mia is going through. They actually bond over it.
** Mia realizes that [[spoiler: Lana]] and Lilly can both make mean remarks; the difference is that Lilly hides it behind her InsufferableGenius personality while with Lana AtLeastIAdmitIt.

* TookALevelInKindness: After years of being an AlphaBitch and a bully to Mia, Lana offers friendship following Mia's TraumaCongaLine in Book Nine, since Mia accepted an offer to speak at Domina Rei. Following a shopping spree at Bendel's, Mia realizes that Lana is NotSoDifferent from Lilly.

** Mia often wonders if she has some kind of mental disorder. Towards the end of ''Princess on the Brink'' she morosely wonders if she has dysthmia or chronic depression, even ticking off the symptoms in her diary. [[spoiler:This becomes more serious in the very next book when she begins binge-eating and spending all day in bed, too depressed even to shower or dress herself. Dr Knutz diagnoses her with stress-induced depression and starts a therapy regiment]].

* PrincessesPreferPink: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin ''Princess in Pink'']] where Mia wears a pink dress to prom, despite Grandmere's insistence that the colour is inappropriate for anywhere other than a wedding. The maid-of-honor dress she wears for her mother's wedding is also pink. Mia turns it into a Glinda the Good Witch costume for Halloween.

* PrincessesPreferPink: ''Princess in Pink'' where Mia wears a pink dress to prom, despite Grandmere's insistence that pink is inappropriate for anywhere other than a wedding. The maid-of-honor dress she wears for her mother's wedding is also pink. Mia turns it into a Glinda the Good Witch costume for Halloween.

** Mia often wonders if she has some kind of mental disorder. Towards the end of ''Princess on the Brink'' she morosely wonders if she has dysthmia or chronic depression, even ticking off the symptoms in her diary. [[spoiler:This becomes more serious in the very next book when she begins binge-eating and spending all day in bed, too depressed even to shower or dress herself.]]

** Mia often wonders if she has some kind of mental disorder. Towards the end of ''Princess on the Brink'' she morosely wonders if she has dysthmia or chronic depression, even ticking off the symptoms in her diary. [[spoiler:This becomes more serious the very next book when she begins binge-eating and spending all day in bed, too depressed even to shower or dress herself.]]

* HarsherInHindsight: Towards the end of ''Princess on the Brink'' Mia morosely wonders if she has dysthmia or chronic depression, even ticking off the symptoms in her diary, and surprises her mother when she doesn't order vegetarian take-out, asking for meat instead. At first this just seems like her usual penchant of wondering if she has some kind of mental disorder. [[spoiler:It becomes more serious in the very next book when she begins binge-eating and spending all day in bed, too depressed even to shower or dress herself.]]

* RewatchBonus: [[spoiler:A lot of things JP says to Mia in ''Princess Mia'' take on a new light after you read ''Forever Princess'' and reveal his real motive for dating her for the publicity. Also a lot of the things he says about Lilly, while not ''always'' lies, can be re-read as a method of manipulating Mia into not feeling bad about going out with her former best friend's ex-boyfriend.]]

* DistractedByTheLuxury: Much as she's aware her mother doesn't want a big fancy wedding, Mia can't help but be delighted by her maid-of-honor dress. When she tries to bring up the subject again, Grandmere distracts her by having the wedding planner show her the matching shoes.

[[--> spoiler:'''JP:''' "The fact that you’re a princess is really special. I've never understood why you've never thought so. Most people would kill to be royal, and yet you spend all your time wishing you weren't. Not that being royal is all that makes you special... by any means."]]

[[spoiler: --> '''JP:''' "The fact that you’re a princess is really special. I've never understood why you've never thought so. Most people would kill to be royal, and yet you spend all your time wishing you weren't. Not that being royal is all that makes you special... by any means."]]

* PrincessesPreferPink: Despite wearing a blue dress to the Diversity Dance in book 1, Mia's prom dress is pink, despite Grandmere's insistance that pink is inappropriate for anywhere other than a wedding. The maid-of-honor dress she wears for her mother's wedding is also pink. Mia turns it into a Glinda the Good Witch costume for Halloween.

* PrincessesPreferPink: Despite wearing a blue dress to the Diversity Dance in book 1, Mia's prom dress is pink, despite Grandmere's insistance that pink is inappropriate for anywhere other than a wedding. The maid-of-honor dress she was going to wear for her mother's wedding was also pink.

* Princess Protagonist: Mia.
* PrincessesPreferPink: Mia's prom dress is pink.

** Lilly has a tendancy to sideline other people's, partiularly Mia's, feelings in favour of her own. For example, when upset over the fact that Boris is dating Tina, she completely disregards that she was the one who cheated on and broke up with him.

* ItsAllAboutMe: While generally kind-hearted, Mia sometimes falls in to this. A notable example was in ''Princess on the Brink'', where she had a BSOD for half the book because her boyfriend was leaving for a year to build a robot that could save thousands, if not millions, of people's lives and lessen suffering around the world. Multiple characters call her out on her attitude.

* SympatheticPOV: Some of Mia's actions look a lot less sympathetic once you hear Lana and Lilly's side of the story.

* RealityEnsues: Lilly tries to release a new school literary magazine titled ''Fat Louie's Pink Butthole'' and publishing her own stories in it. Oh, and she tries to charge money for it. Principal Gupta gets wind of it, heads to the cafeteria where Lilly has set up her booth and busts her because the stories in question are NC-17 and not appropriate for underage students. The gym teacher confiscates the copies and promises refunds to everyone who made a purchase; students selling items on school property is SeriousBusiness. As an added bonus, the teacher advisor in charge of the club, Ms. Martinez, is chided for not reviewing the copies before they were published and is ordered to do so for the new ''Zine'', as the magazine is retitled.

* YourCheatingHeart:
** Lilly cheats on Boris with Mia's cousin and a busboy and later breaks up with Boris. He doesn't take it well.
** Becomes a case of LaserGuidedKarma [[spoiler: JP was emotionally cheating]] on Lilly, pining after Mia instead.
** Following a platonic lunch date, [[spoiler: Mia and Michael have a passionate makeout session in a horse carriage]] while the former is in a relationship with another guy. Mia has a lot of mixed feelings about it.

* [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend He Is Not My Boyfriend]]:

* {{Adorkable}}: Mia, at some points.