While she has gone on to star in many other films in her illustrious career, Anne Hathaway got her big break in Disney's The Princess Diaries. These film adaptations of Meg Cabot's young adult novels featured a very different type of "Disney princess" in the form of an outcast American teenager who learns that she's actually part of the royal family of a small European nation. Given how engrossing the story of Mia Thermopolis' rise to rule over Genovia is, many have wondered if the country is real or simply made up for the film.
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