Michael Moscovitz

Chesley McLaren, Princess Lessons: A Princess Diaries Book

SkinnerBx (IM Name)

MichaelM (Cell Phone)

FPC (Royal Code Name - short for Future Prince Consort)

(May 2007 - June 2015)

## Appearances

The Princess Diaries
The Princess Diaries, Vol. II: Princess in the Spotlight

The Princess Diaries, Vol. III: Princess in Love

The Princess Diaries, Vol. IV: Princess in Waiting

The Princess Diaries, Vol. IV and a Half: Project Princess

The Princess Diaries, Vol. V: Princess in Pink

The Princess Diaries, Vol. VI: Princess in Training

The Princess Diaries, Vol. VI and a Half: The Princess Present

The Princess Diaries, Vol. VII: Party Princess

The Princess Diaries, Vol. VII and a Half: Sweet Sixteen Princess

The Princess Diaries, Vol. VII and 3/4ths: Valentine Princess

The Princess Diaries, Vol. VIII: Princess on the Brink

The Princess Diaries, Vol. IX: Princess Mia

The Princess Diaries, Vol. X: Forever Princess

MiaThermopolis.com

Royal Wedding: A Princess Diaries Novel

From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess

From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess: Royal Day Out

From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess: Royal Wedding Disaster

From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess: Royal Crush

From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess: Royal Crown

Princess Lessons: A Princess Diaries Book

Perfect Princess: A Princess Diaries Book

Holiday Princess: A Princess Diaries Book

**Michael Moscovitz** (b. January 5, 1986), later **Michael Renaldo** is the brother of Lilly Moscovitz.

## Biography

### Early Life

Michael is the older brother to Lilly Moscovitz. Both of their parents are psychoanalysts and they grew up in Greenwich Village. Michael was on a Pee Wee Hockey team as a boy, before he decided that team sports were a waste of time as their success was not dependent on the skill of the individual.

He has known Mia for quite some time. The first time he met Mia she was six years old and hanging upside down from the monkey bars with blue lips from a popsicle.

He has a sheltie named Pavlov. His two favorite TV shows are Xena: Warrior Princess and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Michael learned to drive the summer after he turned 16 at his parents' summer house in Albany.

### Mia's Freshman Year

Michael is a senior at Albert Einstein High School and runs a webzine called Crackhead. He is the treasurer of the Computer Club and is also involved with the Physics Club and the Chess Club.

#### Princess Diaries

Michael flirts with Mia when he finds out her mom is dating Mr. Gianini, but Mia doesn't notice until Lilly points it out later. When Mia has to change to meet her grandmother after school Michael catches her, as he is at a meeting for the Computer Club, but he promises not to tell Lilly. When Mia tells Lilly to Shut Up and they get in their fight Michael witnesses it and can only say "Whoa." Later that night he messages Mia to see if she's okay and offers to help her with her algebra. Michael tries twice to ask Mia to the Cultural Diversity Dance (although she does not realize this and thinks he wants to ask her to study), but misses the chance before Josh Richter asks her. Michael defends her to Lilly when the information about Mia being a princess comes out and Lilly tries to criticize Phillipe for living off of Genovian tax dollars (Michael points out that historically Genovians have not paid taxes and that Phillipe has navigated some difficult political positions).

Michael ends up attending the Cultural Diversity Dance alone (the Computer Club was boycotting after Principal Gupta ruled the internet was not a culture) and sits with Mia at the Pakistani table while their friends are dancing to the slow songs. They talk about Star Trek and when Mr. G informs Mia she now has a D in algebra, she credits Michael's tutelage. Michael asks her to dance and they dance to the rest of the slow songs that evening. When Mia comes back to the Moscovitzs' to spend the night with Lilly, Michael shows her he has been learning to play guitar and plays her a song he wrote, Tall Drink of Water, about a tall, pretty girl who doesn't know a boy is in love with her.

#### Princess in the Spotlight

After noticing that Mia was acting odd at school, Michael IMs Mia to see if she is ok. When Mia was sick Michael also e-mailed Mia a get well card that had an animated Fat Louie dancing and signed it Love, Michael. Mia highly suspects that JoCrox is Michael. At school the next day Mia is sent to Principal Gupta's office for giving Michael some of her codeine for his headache. When Mia spends the night at Lilly's, Michael pulls Mia down from the window after she drops and eggplant to make sure that none of the girls get in trouble, and he tells Lilly that she cannot air the footage on Lilly Tells It Like It Is without editing Mia's face out or she could be in big trouble.

On Monday, Lana asks if Michael and Mia are dating, and then laughs. After Mia's interview airs, Michael IMs her to to comfort her and invites her to Rocky Horror Picture Show on Halloween. Michael buys two extra tickets for Rocky Horror, just in case Mia and Lars are able to make it, which they do - right on time. Michael and the rest of the Computer Club are dressed up as members of Private Ryan's platoon. During the movie, Michael kept checking to make sure that Mia was laughing and having fun. After at Round the Clock, Kenny reveals himself to be JoCrox to Mia and asks her out, which she reluctantly agrees to. Kenny puts his arm around Mia, which causes Michael to look at Lars in alarm. Michael refuses to be reimbursed for the movie tickets, and as they all pile in to the limo for a ride home Michael tells Mia she looks really nice in her dress.

#### Princess in Love

Michael and Judith Gershner go skating with Mia, Kenny, Lilly, Boris, Tina, and Dave. Michael skates backwards in front of Judith, as she is not very good at skating. Kenny decides to try this as well, which results in Mia falling and biting through her tongue. Michael hears Kenny declare his love for Mia in the hallway, but Shameeka assures Mia that he wasn't laughing. When Lilly accuses Mia of not being in touch with her emotions Michael defends her, saying that just because she isn't screaming them in the hall doesn't mean she isn't in touch with them. Michael later IMs Mia to tell her she doesn't have to go along with everything his sister says (including her walkout) and invites her to look at what he's been working on with the Computer Club at the Nondenominational Winter Carnival.

Mia decides to write anonymous love notes to Michael to woo him away from Judith, the same way Kenny wooed her. She has Tina write them and slip them into his locker. Tina tells Mia that she saw Michael take one of the cards out of his locker and put it in his backpack, though it looked like it probably got smashed immediately when Michael put his laptop into his bag. Michael IMs Mia again to double check that she will be attending the Carnival. After Mia's fashion supplement is published Michael e-mails her four times - once to ask if she plans on abdicating the throne and 3 times afterward with jokes.

After final grads are passed out Michael waits by Mia's locker to find out what she got in Algebra. He picks up a rose that fell out of her locker, which causes Mia to briefly hope that he is her Secret Snowflake. When Mia sees that she was able to raise her grade to a B- she screams and hugs Michael, which Kenny comes around the corner and sees.

At the Carnival, Tina drags Mia to the Computer Club booth so that Mia can tell Michael she loves him, but when they arrive Michael pulls Mia to the front of the line and sits her down and begins playing a program. Judith asks what he's doing, but he says he has a special one for her. Michael's program shows a castle, goes over the wall into a rose garden, with petals all over the courtyard. A poem appears, mimicking Mia's poems in her card and confessing Michael's love for her. Mia screams and jumps back and runs away, trying to stop from crying. Michael tries to follow her but she runs into Kenny, who breaks up with her.

Mia ends up going to the dance, in the dress that Sebastiano specifically designed for her so that Michael would no longer see her as just Lilly's friend. After she arrives Lilly calls Michael from the school pay phones and he rushes to the school. He arrives just as Mia is about to leave and tells her that he didn't mean to make her cry. He knew she was the one leaving the notes the whole time because Lilly told him (Tina told her). Mia says she thought Michael's program was him making fun of her. He says he would never and kisses her. Mia and Michael end up slow dancing at the dance, before Lilly reveals that she knew they liked each other the whole time and didn't say anything to figure out how long it would take them to figure it out on their own, as a social experiment.

#### Princess in Waiting

Michael is spending winter break in Boca Raton, Florida with his family and grandparents. Due to the time difference and Mia's busy schedule they are not able to contact each other very often, which causes Mia to believe that Michael might fall for someone else. Due to a loss of sponsors for Crackhead because of an expose Michael wrote about Windows and Linux, Michael has decided to start a band to fill his free time. Mia and Michael are finally able to talk and Mia realizes that she forgot Michael's birthday. On Grandmère's advice, Mia takes a Jane Eyre approach and stops calling Michael.

When she returns to New York Michael has left her a message, which Helen Thermopolis insists she return, but Mia cannot call as the Drs. Moscovitz do not like phone calls after 11pm. Mia DMs Michael and he asks her out on the first official date - to see Star Wars at the screening room. They end their conversation with the Star Wars quotes "I happen to like nice men," "I'm nice."

Michael comes to Mia's algebra class on the first day of the new term to compare schedules, revealing to everyone there that they are dating. When Grandmère pulls Mia out of school the next day after lying and saying that Phillipe is ill, Michael is concerned and Mia cannot tell him why, as she does not want to cancel their date. On Helen's advice Mia decides to cat-on-the-roof Michael, as Mia is supposed to attend a ball at the same time as their date, but she cannot do it as she feels too guilty.

The morning of their date Mia tells Michael that she couldn't get out of the ball and he tells her that he understands that duty comes first and she should come to his house after. Michael plans a new date, bringing the Screening Room to his house by ordering dinner and getting the Star Wars DVD his dad loaned out back. When Mia arrives she is surprised and glad that Michael is not breaking up with her, she also checks that he likes her as more than just a friend. Mia gives Michael his birthday gift - moon rocks from Apollo 11 that she took from Genovia, and he is thrilled, though he doesn't know how he can top it for her birthday. Mia tells him he can just write her another song, hinting that she knows Tall Drink of Water was about her, and suggests the name Skinner Box for his band. Michael tells Mia that her hidden talent, which she hadn't been able to figure out, is writing.

#### Valentine Princess

When Mia and Lilly fight over the origin of Valentine's day, Michael tells them the real origin - that the Romans used to celebrate Juno and Lupercus on the 14th and 15th and it was later appropriated by Christians, though some of the pagan beliefs remained. Michael admits to Mia that he doesn't believe in celebrating Valentine's Day. On Thursday, Judith Gershner reminds Michael that science fair applications are due, so he has to rush off from lunch. After Kenny gives Mia a Whitman Sampler, Michael sits with Mia at lunch, because he says he can't trust the guys at AEHS not to scam on his girlfriend. Mia then presents Michael with his Valentine's Day gift - a coupon book she made for him. Michael immediately redeems one of the Kiss coupons. Michael decides that they should celebrate Valentine's Day and manages to get reservations at One if by Land, Two if by Sea, but Mia has already made plans to spend the night at Tina's. They decide to do something the next day for Lupercalia. That night, before Mia leaves for Tina's, Michael gets Ronnie to let him out onto Mia's fire escape so that he can play Tall Drink of Water for her.

#### Project Princess

Michael is going on the Housing for the Hopeful trip to Hominy Knob, West Virginia. Mia IMs him to tell her that she is also going. After Mia panics about the trip, Michael points out that they will be able to make out, which she thought he hadn't considered. After Boris throws up on the bus, Michael volunteers to sit with him so that he can watch over Boris. After the bus is hosed off Michael is able to sit with Mia again. Michael is in Mia's group, building a house for the Harmeyer Family. On the way back from dinner Michael pulls Mia behind a tree to kiss her, but her hair still smells like barf from the bus.

After a day of work Mia falls asleep on Michael's shoulder during Dr. Gonzales' nightly speech. When Mia puts holes in the gypsum board Angie says she will just hang pictures over them, but Michael assures her they will plaster them. Michael helps Dr. Gonzales and Lars to plumb the house and Angie cries when her new toilet flushes for the first time. Michael volunteers himself and Mia to do inventory. In the supply tent they find Mr. Wheeton and Mademoiselle Klein making out, who make Michael and Mia swear not to tell. Michael begins actually doing inventory rather than making out, which Mia believes is because she smells from not being able to shower.

Michael drives the whole group into Hominy Knob to get barbecue supplies, and takes them to Dairy Queen. Grandmère shows up and offers everyone a shower. Back at camp Michael performs Kum Ba Ya on his guitar. Michael puts his arm around Mia at the fire. When he goes to return his guitar he and Mia finally get the opportunity to make out.

#### Princess in Pink

Michael wins special honors in the science fair for his computer program on a dwarf star. It is less than 2 weeks before prom and Michael has not asked Mia to prom. Michael e-mails Mia to wish her a happy birthday. Michael convinces Skinner Box to cut class and play a song he wrote for Mia to her during G&T. Mrs. Hill waits for them to finish and then gives them all detention. Michael rushes to dinner with Mia's family after his detention and there gives her a snowflake necklace, to remember their first kiss at the Nondenominational Winter Dance.

Mia IMs Michael that she feels like she has forgotten something, trying to hint at prom, but Michael suggests she has forgotten all the algebra tutoring they did as she got a poor grade on a quiz. At Mia's birthday Tina forces them to play Seven Minutes in Heaven and Mia asks Michael if they are going to go to the prom. When Michael tells her that he would rather go bowling than go to the prom, as he finds it stupid, she begins to cry right as Tina opens the door. Lilly runs into the closet with Jangbu, and Michael tells Boris "tough break, man." Mia is shocked that Michael isn't planning on doing anything more than that, like drag Jangbu out of the closet, but Michael tells her that Lilly has amply proven over the years that she can take care of herself. Michael later IMs Mia and urges her to stay out of Lilly and Boris' drama.

During school when Boris holds the globe over his head during G&T Michael takes out his headphones and listens intently. When the globe slips and falls on Boris' head Michael swears and approaches Boris and talks to him in a calming voice while Mia holds her sweater to his wound to stop the bleeding. Michael and Lars help to carry Boris to the nurse's office.

As Mia has still not admitted to Michael that she desperately wants to go to prom Michael IMs her asking if she's mad, then again a few more times telling her to ignore that because he knows if something was wrong she would say something to him. When Mia rushes from french class to the ER to see Helen after she passes out, Tina tells Michael that she got a call and left suddenly. Michael calls Phillipe to find out what's going on and shows up at the ER. Mia tries to convince Michael to go to prom and he says he might go if Felix, Trevor, and Paul did, but none of them would be caught dead at prom. Michael drops off articles he printed out about the danger of dehydration in pregnant women to Mia for Helen.

Michael supports the strikes that are happened but tells Mia he is disgusted with Lilly as her interest is more with Jangbu than with the cause. Prom is cancelled due to the strikes, but Grandmère finds a way for it to continue, and Mia offers it to Lana on the condition that Skinner Box be allowed to play, which she agrees to. Mia rushes off to tell Michael and admits that she wants to go to prom very badly. Michael agrees to play prom and take her, which causes her to kiss him in front of his teacher, embarrassing him. Michael points out to Mia that Grandmère is not old enough to have been involved in World War II. During prom Mia gets the call that Helen is in labor and Michael rushes off with her to the hospital, where Rocky Thermopolis-Gianini is born. As Mia begs her dad to let her stay in New York for the summer Phillipe reminds her that she signed a contract, but Michael points out that minors under the age of 16 are unable to enter into contract legally in the state of New York.

### Mia's Sophomore Year

Michael gets a job at the Apple Store over the summer and enrolls in Columbia University where he is roommates with Doo Pak Sun.

#### Princess in Training

Michael texts Mia good luck on her first day of school. When Michael finds out that Helen and Mr. G are going to be out of town he offers to come over while they are gone. Michael and Mia IM and talk on the phone, but with him at Columbia they don't get to see each other as much. Michael tells Mia about his classes, where he is learning about all the many ways the world is ending and what scientists are doing to stop it. Mia tells Michael that she is staying in her own room at the plaza while Helen and Frank are out of town, but Mia invites her friends over for a slumber party, which annoys Michael.

Mia comes to visit Michael at the dorm. They are making out in his room when Doo Pak returns home. Doo Pak does not believe that Mia is "Mike's" girlfriend, so Mia hides in the bathroom while they argue where she spies a box of condoms in their medicine cabinet. When they return from dinner Mia blurts out that she is not ready to have sex, which does not phase Michael and he just says "ok" and continues kissing her. Mia stops him and says they need to talk about it and asks him about the condoms. He tells her that he got them at orientation, but even if he had bought them she should be happy that he was concerned for her safety and prepared, which she admits she is. Mia tells Michael everything - about Lana, her mom and Wendell Jenkins, and that sometimes condoms break like on Friends. Michael tells her he's not really surprised that she's not ready as she had a hotel room to herself and invited all her friends over instead of him. Mia apologizes for this and Michael asks her when she is going to be ready to have sex. In a panic Mia steals Tina's idea of the Four Seasons after prom night, which Michael immediately shoots down. He tells her she doesn't have to decide right now, but that he isn't going to wait forever.

Michael calls and IMs Mia the next day, but she doesn't respond. Michael shows up at the school after Mia wins the election and takes her to a pizza place to talk. He tells her he saw the debate and she did really well. He requests that he not be around when Mia tells Lilly she doesn't plan to step down, then picks up their food and delivers some to Lars, who is sitting at the other end of the restaurant. Michael tells Mia he just wants to know if they are ever going to Do It and Mia tells him that of course they are, and she promises that it will be before the end of the decade. Michael tells her that he knew everything was going to be difficult, with her being so much younger and Lilly's friend and a princess, but he was up for the challenge because he loves her. Michael tells her he won't push her into anything she isn't ready for, but he knows it takes her a while to get used to things, so he tells her she better start getting used to the idea that she is the only girl he wants and one day she'll be his. They decide to reevaluate where they stand on sex every three months and then grab Lars and go to get gelato.

#### Princess Present

Michael and Lilly go to Genovia for Christmas. Mia has arranged for Michael to stay in the Prince Guillaume bedroom, which has a balcony that adjoins to hers. That night Michael sneaks over to her balcony to make out until they are interrupted by the cat Mia has been feeding who has returned with some friends. Michael is against feeding them as they don't look hungry (and one of them even has a collar), but Mia convinces him and they sneak food from the kitchens for the cats. Michael is too jet-lagged to stay up any longer and goes to bed.

Christmas Eve, Grandmère sends all the younger people on a yacht to get them away from her. Mia offers everyone dramamine, but only Michael and Lilly accept. That night at the party, after Lilly is caught playing strip poker with strip poker and Grandmère faints, Michael helps to carry her to the garden.

After Mia brings home the tourists for lunch on Christmas day Michael asks if he and Mia can be excused to open their presents to each other alone, which Grandmère allows. Michael opens his present from Mia to find the original Star Wars poster she had purchased online. Michael reveals to her that he was actually the one selling the poster so that he could have enough money to get something great for her. Mia offers to get him something else but Michael tells her he really wanted to keep the poster and there is no way she's getting it back. Mia opens her present from Michael and it is the Military Xander figure from Buffy the Vampire Slayer that she was missing, but she tells Michael she sold Fiesta Giles to buy him the poster. Michael laughs, explaining that they each sacrificed something they loved to get something for each other. He kisses Mia but stops to add that seeing Grandmère's face when she saw all the cats in the garden was also an excellent present, and Mia tells him to shut up and kiss her.

#### Party Princess

Michael IMs Mia and finds out about the student council being broke. He suggests selling candles, like the Computer Club did and Mia pretends to be thankful for this suggestion. Michael invites Mia to a party he is throwing at his parents house that weekend while they are out of town (though he assures her they know about it) and Mia agrees, even though she does not want to go to a college party. He is excited that Mia agreed to come, as Paul, Trevor and Felix believed she would not come. Michael later asks Mia if she can get him in to Aide de Ferme so he can meet his hero, Bob Dylan. He invites Mia to come over the night before the party for a dystopian movie marathon for one of his classes. Mia goes and makes dip for the party, even though Michael was planning on just buying some.

Mia goes to the party with a new look, which surprises Michael. Mia grabs a beer and Michael asks what she is doing, but she blows him off and goes to dance (even though no one else is dancing). J.P. joins her and she shimmies up to him, but the Drs. Moscovitz return home just then and Michael follows them into their room. They tell Michael that they are separating and he plans on telling Mia but when he comes out into the living room she has already left. Mia tries to get ahold of Michael over the next few days but all he sends back is "WE NEED 2 TALK." Mia eventually just shows up at his dorm room, which surprises him. She apologizes for her behavior and that says she was really intimidated by being at a college party, but he shouldn't have given her the silent treatment. Michael confirms that she was being immature and shouldn't have been intimidated, but he wasn't giving her the silent treatment - he was processing the fact that his parents are separating. Mia is shocked by this info and asks if Lilly knows, which Michael says she doesn't. Mia apologizes again for trying to be a party girl and Michael tells her he doesn't want a party girl, he just wants - but he is cut off by Doo Pak's return to their dorm room. Mrs. Dr. Moscovitz calls, and though Michael signals that he doesn't want to talk to her, Doo Pak tells her he is home and gives the phone to Michael. Michael dutifully gets on the phone and talks to his mother and Mia leaves, sending him an e-mail from the limo.

Michael doesn't contact Mia again, but schemes with Lilly and J.P. to get Mia out of her kiss at the end of the musical. As the last scene is cued during the performance Michael shows up in J.P.'s costume and kisses Mia for the final scene. Mia asks Michael to forgive her for her sexy dance, and he agrees as long as she will forgive him for being so absent, which she does. After the show he gets to talk to Bob Dylan. He comes up to Mia and wraps his arms around her and asks her how she is, and she truthfully tells him she is good.

#### Sweet Sixteen Princess

Michael opts for accelerated graduation, in 3 years rather than 4, and is incredibly busy with school. Between this and his parents separation, causing him to spend every Friday night with one of his parents, there is very little time for him and Mia to see each other.

Michael IM's Mia about her upcoming birthday, but she tells him that all she wants for her birthday is him. Michael assumes she means sex and tries to arrange that, but Mia clarifies that she just wants things to be simple like they used to be when they all went ice skating and she just wants to have a romantic dinner with him on her birthday. Mia and Michael agree that from now on they will only give each other gifts that they have made themselves.

After hearing about Grandmère's plan to have her birthday filmed for My Super Sweet Sixteen Mia calls Michael. He agrees with her that Grandmère's plan is ridiculous, but tells her she should have some sort of party so that the people that love her can celebrate her. He also tells her that she should forgive Lilly for what she did at Mia's party the year before.

On Mia's birthday Michael calls her to confirm that she still just wants a romantic dinner with him, which she does, and he tells her he will pick her up at 6. Michael arrives and they go down to the limo where Hans begins driving without instructions. They arrive at Rockefeller center where there is a large wedding tent over the ice rink, which is still open, even though it normally closes on April 1. Michael reveals that he planned with Phillipe, Helen, and Mr. G to plan an ice skating party for Mia with all her friends.

Mia talks to Lilly and asks Michael for his opinion on what J.P. said to her after she told him she loved him. Michael says that it could be that he's bubbling with passion, but it's probably that he's just not that into her, not knowing that Mia is asking about Lilly and J.P. Michael takes Mia to open her present - a Segway-like Human Transporter he built himself. "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" plays and Mia tells him that they should go have the time of their lives, and they skate off to join their friends.

### Mia's Junior Year

#### Princess on the Brink

Michael spends his summer working on a robotic surgical arm for closed heart surgery while Mia is in Genovia. Michael brings Mia to Number One Noodle Son and tells her that he has gotten an amazing opportunity to work on his robotic arm in Japan. Mia mistakenly believes that he will only be gone for a week or two, but Michael informs her that he will actually have to be gone for a year, maybe more, and will not be able to return for any holidays as he will have to be working the whole time. Mia starts to freak out and asks him what will happen to their relationship and he tells her that they'll be fine, of course he'll miss her, but frankly time away from her might not be the worst thing as they aren't having sex. He tells her that he is willing to wait, but that it might be easier if he doesn't have to take cold showers every weekend. He also tells her that he is going to Japan for their relationship - to prove to her family that he is worthy of dating a princess. She tells him that he doesn't need to prove himself because she already love him but Michael tells her he would never be happy just being a consort and he drops her off at home. They go out the next night to do all the last New York things before Michael leaves and Mia tells him not to make plans for the next night as she plans to surprise him with a hotel room for them to have sex.

The next night she meets him at his mom's apartment and they sneak out to go to the hotel room Grandmère gave Mia at the Ritz Carlton. They order room service and after dinner Mia asks Michael if he remembers the last time she had a hotel room to herself and she invited the girls over and not him. He tells her that he does and she notes that this time it's the same circumstances but she invited him. Mia tells Michael that she's given it a lot of thought and she's ready to have sex with him. Michael doesn't seem surprised but asks her if she's sure, which confuses Mia. Michael wants to make sure that Mia won't be upset if they have sex and then he leaves for Japan to make sure she won't feel like he's abandoning her. Mia lies and says that's not why she wants to have sex but she's surprised he would want to leave if regular sex was on the table but Michael tells her again that he has to go to prove himself to her family.

Mia tells Michael that before they leave she thinks that they should share the Precious Gifts of their Virginity with each other, but Michael asks her what she is talking about. Mia reiterates that they should give each other the Precious Gifts of their Virginity but Michael laughs and says he gave away his "precious gift" a long time ago, which shocks Mia. Mia asks Michael if he's a virgin and Michael says of course not and that she already knew that, but Mia yells back that she did not know. Michael starts to look alarmed and tells Mia that he knows they never talked about it but he didn't think it was a big deal but this makes Mia even more mad and she continues to yell. Michael tells her it was before he even knew that she liked him so he didn't think it would matter and Mia asks him who he slept with. Michael doesn't want to tell her as he's worried she'll get more angry, but he finally relents and tells her he slept with Judith Gershner. Mia freaks out even more, wondering if they were in love and if they used protection, but Michael says it shouldn't matter because she was dating Kenny at the time. Mia takes this as Michael blaming her for this, which he is not trying to do, but he brings up Josh Richter. This makes Mia even more angry and she yells at Michael for just expecting her to wait around while he's off in Japan and Michael gets really quiet and asks her what she means. Mia tells him that it's not fair of him to go off to Japan and expect her to just sit at home like a nun when she is only 16. Michael tells her that's not what he wants but he assumed she wouldn't want to see anyone else because he doesn't plan on dating anyone else, but asks her if that's what she really wants. Mia does not want this at all but can't stop herself from saying that if he could keep the fact that he slept with Judith from her then their relationship might not be as good as she thought. Michael yells at her that she never asked him but Mia continues that if he's willing to move to a whole other country then clearly the relationship never meant that much to him anyway. Michael shakes his head and tells Mia not to do this, but she takes off her snowflake necklace and holds it out to him. Michael angrily tells her not to do this, but she drops the snowflake necklace and runs from the room.

Michael tries to call Mia at home, but Helen tells him it's not a good time to talk, so he e-mails her that night and again in the morning, telling her that he'll be waiting when she picks up Lilly so they can talk but Mia calls Lilly and tells her that she can't pick her up. He texts her later in the day to tell her that he is going to come so they can talk. He shows up after Mia's chemistry class but sees her hug and kiss J.P. and leaves, even though Mia calls his name. Mia tries to catch Michael before his flight takes off but fails, but before she leaves for Beauty and the Beast Mia e-mails Michael, saying simply, "I'm sorry."

#### Princess Mia

After receiving Mia's e-mail Michael calls her and tells her he got her e-mail and saw the article about her and J.P. in the post. He tells her sorry they have to have the conversation over the phone but he thought about it during his entire plane ride and thinks they would be better off if they went back to just being friends like they were before they started dating. Michael thinks time apart (and seeing other people) might be good for them. Mia is heartbroken and even though she doesn't want to she agrees before hanging up so Michael will not hear her cry.

Michael e-mails Mia to keep her up to date on his trip to Japan, but Mia cannot bring herself to respond and deletes his message. Michael e-mails again and updates Mia on his work on his robotic arm and hoping she is feeling better as he heard she is sick. He asks her to e-mail him back as he would love to hear from her. Michael e-mails again after Kenny blows up the chem lab. After Mia's Domina Rei speech Michael e-mails Mia again and for the first time in a long time she laughs at something he has said, which allows Mia to believe that they could possibly be friends and for the first time Mia e-mails him back.

### Mia's Senior Year

Michael and Mia e-mail once or twice a month back and forth. He asks to read her senior project, which he believes to be about Genovian olive oil pressing, but she just stops e-mailing him back as she does not want to reveal the true nature of her project.

Boris keeps an eye on Mia for Michael and updates him about her life, as they have been friends for a while.

Michael finds out about IHateMiaThermopolis.com and tells Lilly that she has to be nice to Mia.

Michael finishes designing the CardioArm and begins his company, Pavlov Surgical. The arm is wildly in demand with a long wait list and over a $1 million price-tag. He returns to New York, with his company based there as well, but with production based in California.

#### Forever Princess

Michael is scheduled to donate a CardioArm to his alma mater, Columbia. During the ceremony he is given an honorary masters degree and brings his team out on stage. Lilly drags Mia up to talk to Michael, but she cannot form an answer when he asks how she is so Lilly pinches her. Michael jokes that Lilly should be careful as Lars is often waiting around somewhere, and Mia tells him he's around somewhere. She tells him she is well and asks how he is, but his mother interrupts to tell him that someone from the New York Times is waiting for an interview. Lilly suggests that Mia and Michael meet up for an interview and Michael tells her to meet him the next day and to bring a copy of her senior project so that he can read it.

Mia records her interview with Michael and he embarrasses her by telling her that she is the reason he went to Japan and the thing she missed most about the U.S.. He thanks her for the invite to her party and Mia realizes that Grandmère has invited the whole Moscovitz family. Michael asks again to read Mia's senior project and Mia finally admits that it's a romance. Michael still wants to read it so she e-mails it to him, but after he laughs at her pen name Mia tells him to delete it and wrestles him for his phone, spilling hot chocolate on him by accident. Mia offers Michael a handshake as they go to leave, but Michael asks for a hug.

Michael sends Lilly to school with an envelope to give to Mia. Inside is a note from Michael telling her that he loved her book and a birthday gift - a Hoth Leia flash drive with a back-up copy of her book. Michael comes to Mia's party and compliments the tiara she received, which used to be Princess Amelie's. Boris reveals that Mia is planning to attend the University of Genovia and Michael, knowing it is a bad school, asks why she would go there. Boris tells him that Mia didn't get in anywhere else because of her SAT scores, but Michael finds that hard to believe as many schools no longer factor SAT into admissions. J.P. joins the group, which causes a tension to fall and he is surprised that Michael is back. Boris tells J.P. that Michael has been back for a while and that his CardioArm is now a massive success, which J.P. says is great. To fill the awkwardness Tina tells Michael that J.P. wrote a play, which Michael tells him is great. Michael leaves suddenly when J.P. pulls Mia onstage to prompose.

Michael arranges for a CardioArm to be donated to the Royal Genovian Hospital and sends Midori to teach the surgeons how to use it. Mia texts him and asks if she can take him out to dinner to thank him and Michael texts backs and admits that he only sent the CardioArm because he knew it would help Phillipe which would make Mia happy. He asks if they can meet that night, but Mia has J.P.'s play and suggests they get lunch on Friday and Michael agrees, suggesting a romantic restaurant. Michael goes to Boris' senior concert and congratulates him on his performance.

Michael arrives at lunch on Friday and greets Mia with a kiss on the cheek. Mia tells him she received a publishing deal for her book and Michael toasts to her success. Spying her ring, Michael asks if she and J.P. are engaged, but Mia tells him it is a friendship ring. She tells him that J.P. might be taking a year off to go to Hollywood and Michael is surprised that they would do long distance until she explains that he asked her to go with him. Michael tells her she will do the right thing, as she always does in the end, and Mia is shocked as he better than anyone should know that she doesn't, as she blames herself for ruining their relationship. Michael tries to take responsibility for the break-up, but Mia tells him he did the right thing as they both needed a break. Michael agrees but tells her he didn't think she'd get engaged in the meantime, which shocks Mia, but Michael laughs and tells her he didn't expect her to wait around. Their conversation falls back to how they used to talk, back when and before they were dating, and Michael picks up the tab for lunch.

Michael asks her what she is doing for the rest of the day and takes her on a carriage ride through Central Park (though she initially objects). The cart lurches forward and Michael puts his arm around her and before she knows it they are making out. When the carriage stops Mia panics and Michael starts to tell Mia that she had to have known he still loves her, but she stops him and tells him not to say it before grabbing Lars and running off. Michael texts her that he is not sorry and will wait for her.

After realizing all of J.P.'s lies, Mia breaks up with him at prom and calls the Royal Genovian Lawyers, but as she hangs up the phone she sees Michael there. She asks him why he is there and he asks why she thinks he's there, so she asks how long he was standing there and Michael tells her he was there long enough to be nauseated. He tells her she made a nice move by calling the lawyers before imitating her telling J.P. to call Stacey Cheeseman. Mia again asks Michael why he's there and he tells her that Lilly told him to come to the Waldorf around midnight on prom night because Mia might need him and asks why Lilly might think that. Mia jokingly suggests that Lilly must have known that she always wanted to spend her prom night with him. Michael asks Lars if he should go back and beat J.P. up, which Lars endorses, but Mia objects. Michael says he still thinks he should beat J.P. up and the world might have been a better place if someone had beaten him up a long time ago, but Lars jokes that he can't beat anyone up after midnight due to bodyguard union regulations. Mia suggests that instead Lars should take the rest of the night off and she and Michael should go back to his place. Michael agrees.

At his apartment, Michael gives Mia back her snowflake necklace, having found and kept it after their fight in hopes that they would someday get back together. He offers to buy her a diamond snowflake to replace the silver one. Michael explains that he never stopped loving her, but due to Boris' e-mails he believed that she and J.P. were totally in love and happy together, but when he saw her at the CardioArm event he started to think Boris was wrong. Mia and Michael sleep together and in the morning return to the loft, where Helen is thrilled to see they have gotten back together. They go to Mia's graduation and dance at the reception, where Mia is happy that, despite all the hassles being a princess has come with, she is getting a happy ending.

### Adult Life

Michael attends Barack Obama's inauguration with Mia and goes to Genovia to visit her over her spring break. Michael plays along when Mia's suitemate, Pamela, thinks that Michael is the one that kidnapped her Cabbage Patch doll and has a crush on her. Michael is Mia's +1 for the royal wedding. He makes a joke about the two of them eloping, which goes over Mia's head.

In 2014 Michael has a kidney stone, which he describes as the most painful thing in his life.

#### Royal Wedding

Michael and Mia are still together as her 26th birthday approaches but they hardly ever see each other due to their busy work schedules and Mia having to hide from the press at the Genovian consulate. Michael recommends Mia take magnesium for her eye twitching, though he suggests that she could get it from a more salacious source. Michael continues his friendship with Boris after his break-up with Tina, believing Boris' version of the story. Michael meets with Helen and Phillipe to ask their blessing in asking Mia to marry him.

Michael texts Mia on the morning of her 26th birthday and tells her he has a surprise planned for her and she needs to pack a bag and assures her that everything has been arranged for her to leave town. Michael flies Mia to Exumas, Bahamas where they are able to relax and have lots of sex without the fear of reporters or surveillance. On the last night they are there a private chef comes to the island for a special dinner. Michael cheers' Mia with champagne and she finds an engagement ring in her glass. Michael drops to one knee and tells her that the ring has an ethical lab-grown diamond and that he wants to marry her. Mia tries to protest that they aren't ready yet but Michael tells her that he doesn't want to just be her boyfriend in case anything happens to her, as he would not be able to see her in the hospital. Mia finally relents and wants to elope but Michael tells her his parents will be disappointed if they do not have a real wedding. Mia suggests they have a small family wedding to please their family, but not tell Grandmère.

Mia and Michael return to New York to find that the news of their engagement has already broken. Michael tells his parents, who did not believe the gossip, that they are engaged and reassures them when they express concerns over Michael having to change his name to Renaldo and his ability to keep kosher in the palace. Michael has to cancel some of the Pavlov Surgical events due to the media circus surrounding his engagement. He calls Mia and they agree to go forward with the wedding. Michael and Phillipe stumble, drunk, into the Plaza suite, celebrating the engagement. Mia tells Michael and Lars about Olivia Harrison in the limo on the way home but due to the paparazzi they are forced to check into a hotel under the name Mr. and Mrs. James T. Kirk. Mia tells Michael that she is going to go and find Olivia and tell her that she is a princess but Michael suggests she talk to her father first.

After Mia talks to Phillipe she texts Michael not to come over as her father has fallen asleep on her couch. She goes to New Jersey to get Olivia the next day and Michael texts her to let her know that someone has posted a picture online of her in New Jersey. He tells her that Boris is planning on throwing him a bachelor party in Buenos Aires with some of their friends from World of Warcraft. Michael calls Mia later to tell her that someone posted a photo of her with Olivia and that it is on all the news sites. Michael is assigned added security due to the threats from those that don't approve of a biracial princess and he is amused that he has caused anti-Semites to threaten the royal family. Michael reminds Mia that Phillipe is in court but tells her he knows someone in IT at the courthouse and he might be able to get a message to him. Mia warns him that if he contacts Phillipe someone might mention a prenup but Michael tells Mia that a prenup makes good financial sense.

Michael arrives at the Plaza for Mia's meeting with Lazarres-Reynolds but he comes up on J.P. in the hall telling someone over the phone that Mia is still into him and he can sell tickets to their wedding. Michael punches J.P. in the face and secretly steals his phone, discovering that J.P. is RoyalRabbleRouser, which he turns over to the Royal Genovian Guard without telling Mia. Michael sees Mia's foot and insists she go to the doctor for an x-ray. Dr. Delgado tells them that Mia is pregnant with twins and Michael decides that they should move to Genovia for the space but keep an apartment in the city so that their kids can learn to appreciate it in the same way they do. He downloads pregnancy books and begins preparing. Due to the J.P. incident and the pregnancy he cancels his bachelor party.

Back at the Plaza, Michael joins Phillipe talking to Rick and Catherine O'Toole and Bill Jenkins. Michael gets Grandmère a drink but does not like the way that Mia flatly reveals her pregnancy to her to get revenge. Helen and Phillipe come over to the consulate to tell them big news but Michael tells them they have news as well and they reveal their pregnancy. After Mia and Phillipe go to get Olivia back Michael texts Mia that pictures of her have surfaced at an E.R. in New Jersey and he is concerned that everything is ok with her and the babies.

#### Later

In Genovia Michael brings Mia cold sesame noodles from Number One Noodle Son after a business trip to New York. Michael has a bachelor party in Genovia that Phillipe attends, spilling champagne on the Robe of State. Before Rocky's first day of school in Genovia he throws a shoe at Michael while throwing a tantrum and Michael throws it back at him, which Mia tells him is not something a Prince Consort should do. Michael and the rest of the family are happy with Olivia after she calms Rocky from another tantrum at the end of the day.

Michael and Mia come to the Royal Genovian Academy's performance of All Roads Lead to Genovia and laugh so hard they cry so they invite the school to attend their reception and perform again. Mia and Michael get married and he almost cries when she walks down the aisle. They take traditional Genovian wedding vows and Michael pledges his loyalty to Genovia, forsaking all other citizenship. He kneels and Mia takes a sword and lays it on each of his shoulders, naming him Prince Michael Renaldo of Genovia. Prime Minister Cécile Dupris finishes the ceremony and tells them they can kiss and Michael picks Mia up to kiss her, causing her crown to fall off, which Boris catches. Before the reception Michael jokes about consummating the marriage, which Mia tells him is unnecessary but they have sex anyway. Michael and Mia dance at the reception for their first dance and Michael shares a dance with his mother.

Mia and Michael honeymoon in the Greek Isles on the Royal Yacht.

Michael jokes about various names for the new babies, including Luke and Leia and Han and Solo. Michael doesn't want the press tipped off when Mia goes into labor so they sneak out in a member of the R.G.G.'s personal vehicle to go to the hospital without telling anyone. Mia and Michael decide to spend more time with the babies to learn their personalities before deciding on names. They eventually decide on Frank and Elizabeth Renaldo. They take the babies to an appointment on the morning of Olivia's birthday and they give her a pair of skis as a birthday gift (plus a new iPod and Genovian truffles from the twins). Michael and the rest of the men are shocked when the women think that Olivia's gift from Hans and Anna-Katerina Lapsburg von Stuben is a bribe to date their son Prince Gunther. Before her party Michael and Lilly take lots of pictures of Olivia.

Michael is shocked by Prince René's cease and desist ahead of Mia's coronation. He and Mia agree to let Olivia, Nishi Desai, and Luisa Ferrari to babysit the twins while they are in court, though Michael questions their qualifications. Mia, Michael, and Phillipe return from court looking upset, though they win the case. Michael participates in Mia's coronation. When he sees her in the dress Sebastiano designed for her he jokingly asks her to marry him. He helps to lift the Robe of State onto her shoulders and Mia is coronated.

## Physical Appearance

Michael is described as tall and pale, with curly, dark hair and a well-defined chest and abdominal area. Mia thinks he smells nice, like soap. He has chestnut brown hair with gold and black high- and low-lights which he wears longs, dark russet and mahogany eyes with ruby and gold flecks, and an Aquiline nose. When Michael returns from Japan he has cut his hair and has bulked up from obvious gym time, looking much more muscular than he did in college.

Michael may only be 2 inches taller than Mia.

Michael has lots of body hair.

## Personality and Traits

Michael is extremely smart, and good with computers. He designed an entire computer game as a senior in High School called *Decapitate the Backstreet Boys.* In it, the player hurls knives and axes at members of the Backstreet Boys. In progressing levels a player gets to cut off heads of the members of 98 Degrees and 'N Sync, culminating in the player getting to carve their initials into Ricky Martin's chest. Michael helped to design the AEHS website. He is the co-valedictorian at AEHS and has the best GPA in the school.

He plays guitar and writes his own songs. Michael can also play piano and drums.

He has a very sarcastic and smart alecky personality.

Michael has glow-in-the-dark stars on his childhood bedroom ceiling in the shape of the Andromeda galaxy.

Michael's favorite flavor of chapstick is cherry.

Michael does not believe in PDA.

## Relationships

### Mia Thermopolis

See: Mia Thermopolis and Michael Moscovitz's Relationship

### Judith Gershner

Michael and Judith had a friends with benefits relationship during their senior year of high school before he and Mia began dating (though Judith was dating someone else). She took Michael's virginity, which Michael failed to reveal to Mia during their relationship.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 The Princess Diaries
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Princess Diaries, Vol. III: Princess in Love
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Princess Lessons: A Princess Diaries Book
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 The Princess Diaries, Vol. IV and a Half: Project Princess
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 The Princess Diaries, Vol. IV: Princess in Waiting
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 The Princess Diaries, Vol. X: Forever Princess
7. ↑ MiaThermopolis.com
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Royal Wedding: A Princess Diaries Novel
9. ↑ From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess: Royal Day Out
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess: Royal Crown
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess: Royal Wedding Disaster
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess: Royal Crush
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 The Princess Diaries, Vol. VIII: Princess on the Brink
14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 The Princess Diaries, Vol. II: Princess in the Spotlight