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        Author’s Note  Warning: This book contains references to the COVID-19 pandemic.  If you’d like to help those in need because of the pandemic, I invite you to join me (and Princess Mia) in supporting the work of VOW for Girls, a growing global movement to end child marriage founded by real-life Princess Mabel van Oranje of the Netherlands. While most weddings are a cause for celebration, the COVID-19 pandemic has put more young girls than ever at risk of becoming brides.    VOW for Girls partners with individuals like us to end underage marriage and support every girl’s choice to love on her own terms. One hundred percent of funds raised go directly to local organizations advancing girls’ rights. Ten percent of my proceeds of the sale of this book will go to VOW for Girls.    To learn how you can easily donate (or incorporate the cause into your own wedding or other special celebration), please visit vowforgirls.org.       Family Tree of Princess “Mia” Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis RenaldoReigning Monarch of Genovia   Dowager Princess Clarisse Grimaldi Renaldo | Prince Phillipe Renaldo  married  Princess Helen Thermopolis | Princess “Mia” Thermopolis Renaldo married Prince Consort Michael Moscovitz | Princess Elizabeth and Prince Frank  (Mia and Michael’s toddler twins)   Lesser royals:  Princess Olivia Grace Harrison Renaldo (Mia’s paternal half sister) Prince Rocky Thermopolis Renaldo (Mia’s maternal half brother) Lilly Moscovitz (Mia’s sister-in-law) Prince René (Mia’s second cousin) Count Ivan Renaldo (Mia’s second cousin)       Epigraph   “She had many opportunities of making her mind think of something else, and many opportunities of proving to herself whether or not she was a princess. But one of the strongest tests she was ever put to came on a certain dreadful day which, she often thought afterward, would never quite fade out of her memory even in the years to come.”  A Little Princess Frances Hodgson Burnett     Contents  Cover Title Page   Author’s Note Family Tree of Princess “Mia” Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo Epigraph Contents Quarantine Day 1 Quarantine Day 1 continued Quarantine Day 2 Quarantine Day 3 Quarantine Day 3 continued Quarantine Day 4 Quarantine Day 5 Quarantine Day 6 Quarantine Day 7 Quarantine Day 8 Quarantine Day 9 Quarantine Day 10 Quarantine Day 11 Quarantine Day 12 Quarantine Day 13 Quarantine Day 13, later Quarantine Day 14 Quarantine Day 15 Quarantine Day 16 Quarantine Day ? Quarantine Day ????? Quarantine Day Who Knows? Later on Quarantine Day Who Knows? Even Later on Quarantine Day Who Knows? Quarantine Day (feels like) 5,978,364 Quarantine Day One Billion Quarantine Day One   Quarantine Day 1   Royal Bedroom  Just got back from what was supposed to be a routine meeting with the prime minister about my composting program. Considering the fact that compost-treated soil helps protect plants from pests and diseases, and Genovian olive oil is prized throughout the world, it’s something we ought to have looked into years ago.   But instead of getting right into my soil treatment proposal, Madame Dupris said, “I’ve just received terrible news, Your Highness.”   Apparently there’s a worldwide pandemic.  Excuse me, but what??   I mean obviously I did hear a little something about a flu going around in China, but I’ve been