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When it came out, I didn’t understand European geopolitics, inheritance, divine right, or classism, but I understood what it felt like to feel weird in my body, to never feel popular or en vogue, and how others used this vulnerability against me.
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This movie was always going to appeal to my vanity, which it still does, but it was also fascinating to see how disparate our lives in 49 square miles could be.
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Now, I am also a San Francisco kid whose name is Amelia, though my dad isn’t from Genovia - just Canada. Her San Francisco is a geographic Frankenstein devoid of just about every part known to me, who grew up in the Mission and Bernal Heights, yet she herself feels like a San Francisco kid. I’m talking, of course, about 2001’s coming-of-age opus, The Princess Diaries. This was a girl at the center of a story about choices, respect, and realizing that negging is a trash attempt at coercive flirting. This narrative gave my generation a girl like them, a girl not interested in greatness, yet, as we know, rose to the occasion when it was thrust upon her. What followed was a cinematic masterpiece of confronting societal expectations and pressures while coming of age in a way that was meaningful, and rooted in self-love, not power or conformity. She was gobsmacked, literally tripped up, in the swift change of course, of the stratosphere, to her life scootering by what looks like Union Square and rock climbing with her mom, pining for love and sense of self throughout. Twenty years ago as of last week, in this very city, an obscure, bespectacled teenager found out she was the heiress to a small European nation and related to Julie Andrews.