Meg Cabot is taking readers back to Genovia.
The author will publish the next installment in her popular Princess Diaries series of novels next year, Entertainment Weekly reports. This one has a modern twist: It’s set during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic and is titled The Quarantine Princess Diaries.
Cabot launched her popular series in 2000 with The Princess Diaries, a novel about a young American woman who learns that she’s the princess of a small European nation called Genovia. The book was adapted into a 2001 blockbuster movie starring Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews; a sequel to the film followed three years later.
The Quarantine Princess Diaries will be the 12th book in Cabot’s series. The most recent installment, Royal Wedding, was published in 2015; in a starred review, a critic for Kirkus wrote of the book, “This funny, heartwarming story is royally perfect from start to finish.”
In an Instagram post announcing the new book, Cabot revealed some of its plot points: “*A suspected royal affair* One very demanding royal grandmother* All while locked down in a palace with a dysfunctional royal family in Genovia during Covid*.”
She also announced that some of the proceeds from the novel will go to VOW for Girls, Netherlands Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau’s charity that aims to “end the international child marriage crisis and support girls to live lives they love.”
The Quarantine Princess Diaries is scheduled for publication on March 28, 2023.
Michael Schaub, a journalist and regular contributor to NPR, lives near Austin, Texas.
