The movie The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement takes place primarily in Genovia, the fictional European kingdom ruled by Mia Thermopolis’s family.
In the 2004 Disney sequel, Mia returns from the United States to prepare to succeed her grandmother, Queen Clarisse Renaldi. The story follows royal ceremonies, palace life and a succession crisis in Genovia, where Mia is told that she must marry before becoming queen under the kingdom’s rules.
Genovia is not a real country. It was created for Meg Cabot’s Princess Diaries novels and adapted into the films. The movies present it as a small, picturesque European principality, with royal traditions and a capital associated with the Genovian palace. The sequel also includes scenes connected to Mia’s earlier life in the United States, but Genovia is the central setting.
Viewers sometimes confuse the fictional kingdom with Geneva or Genoa because the names sound similar. Genovia, however, is an invented place designed to give the story a fairy-tale European setting.