For Julia Andrews, The Princess Diaries has the sweet aura of deja vu.

It's the story of the unlikely transformation of an awkward duckling into the most magnificent of swans. In the stage version of My Fair Lady, Andrews played the student of the tyrannical Professor Higgins who miraculously passes a one-time flower girl off as a princess.
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The Princess Diaries is a teen girl's Disney dream. One day, our hapless heroine is moping about school as the super-geek, ignored by the callow boys she idolizes, insulted by the cool girls who are too ignorant to appreciate her qualities, and befriended only by other eccentrics whom the bitchy insiders think are total losers.

The next day, she finds out she is a princess and the heir to the throne of an obscure European country called Genovia. Suddenly, with her newfound notoriety, our heroine becomes the most popular teen in the school.
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