Anne Hathaway<\/a> – who played Mia Thermopolis in the first two films alongside Dame Julie Andrews as Queen Clarisse Renaldi – is returning to the role for a third film and now Adele – who is onboard to direct – has given an update revealing the next installment will focus on an older audience as fans of the 2001 original The Princess Diaries and 2004 sequel The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement have all grown up.<\/p>\nAdele told Variety: “We just want to make the story right because it is a franchise that is so beloved by so many people.<\/p>\n
“There are so many movies that are wish fulfilment for princesses, we don\u2019t have a lot of wish fulfilment movies for queens. That\u2019s what we are setting out to do here, to show a woman in her full power.”<\/p>\n
She went on to add: “If you were a fan of the original first two movies, I think you can look forward to a lot of fun returns. We\u2019re going to be able to shoot in Europe and really show the audience Genovia in its full glory.”<\/p>\n
\nAnne recently declared she wants The Princess Diaries 3 to be her next project after finishing work promoting The Devil Wears Prada 2 because the fashion-based film “took over” her schedule.<\/p>\n
\nThe actress told Entertainment Weekly she’s working hard to get the project moving forward, saying: “One hundred per cent, we\u2019re constantly working on it. [The Devil Wears Prada 2] cropped up unexpectedly and took over the space … it became impossible to focus on both at the same time.” <\/p>\n
\nAnne insisted The Princess Diaries 3 is “not greenlit or confirmed yet” but they are “chipping away at the script” and she wants to move ahead with it, adding: “The intention is to make Princess Diaries hopefully next.” <\/p>\n
\nShe went on to say “If I learned anything from [Devil Wears Prada 2], it\u2019s that expectations are very, very high, and if you\u2019re going to do it, you have to knock it out of the park.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"11 May 2026 The Princess Diaries 3 will provide “wish fulfilment for queens”, according to director Adele Lim.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[8896,89085,9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-226874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-anne-hathaway","tag-dame-julie-andrews","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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