A/N : Okay, chapter 3 is here! Thanx to the following peops for the wonderful reviews on chapter 2 ; fantasy-dreamer, little-princess, CrazyCanuck (sorry if the chapters a little short but there should be lots of chapters to make up for the fact that they're short), jackie (sorry to disappoint, but she's not named after you) CrazyNut2002, swimcc, sapofbks2002, Cassandra Anthemyst, ndblue123.

Now on with the story...

Disclaimer : My characters - Phillippe, Diana, Jackie. Meg Cabot's characters - Mia, Michael, Lars, Kenny, Clarisse. I think that's everyone covered!

"You've come here from America without your mother!" Mia was astonished that a child could do such a thing.

"Yes, your majesty" Diana said, quietly, beginning to feel quite ashamed of what she'd done.

"Oh Diana, whatever possessed you?!" Mia said, quite shocked.

"Mia" Michael tried to calm his wife down, "it really is none of our business" he whispered. Mia knew he was right but it was a lot to take in. Her bodyguard, whom she entrusted life to everyday, had had a relationship, on and off for five years and yet she knew nothing about it and now out of the blue came this child, Lars's daughter whom even he did not know about.

"Maybe we should leave you two alone for a while" Michael suggested, taking his wife's hand.

"Yes, of course" she agreed, noticing the look on Michael's face, "We'll just be next door" she added, but neither Diana or Lars were listening. Both seemed to be in shock since their meeting, which of course, was quite understandable.

When Mia and Michael got outside the room they realised that Phillippe was standing there.

"Have you been listening at this door?" Michael hissed at him.

"No" Phillippe whispered his lie, but the look in his father's eyes brought out his confession of guilt, "Okay, yes, but I was curious. Did I hear right? Is she Lars's daughter?"

"Come here" Mia whispered, directing the two men to the next room. "Now perhaps we can speak at a reasonable volume" she added in the reasonable volume she had been talking about.

"So what's the deal?" Phillippe asked as soon as his mother had finished speaking.

"The deal is" Michael began, "Diana is Lars's daughter, but he didn't know about her"

"How old is she?" the prince wanted to know next.

"Almost sixteen" Michael told him.

"Where's she from?"

"New York" Michael answered again, "What is this Phillippe? Twenty questions?" he looked frustrated.

"I'm just curious, that's all" Phillippe turned defensive. The truth was he wanted to know all about this girl, everything he could find out. She had to be the most beautiful girl he'd ever seen, and he'd seen plenty of good looking girls, and rich girls and posh girls, but he could tell just by looking at her that Diana was different. He wasn't sure if he believed in love at first sight, but he definitely liked her and probably more than he should.

"So how come Lars didn't know about her?" Phillippe dared to ask another question as he sat down between his parents who had already seated themselves on the large sofa in the room.

"Diana's mother, Jackie, never told him she was pregnant. Lars came back to Genovia with me when I was pregnant with you and I had married Kenny, but after that he did go back to New York twice with Grandmere. I can only assume that it was on the second of those trips that Jackie became pregnant"

"Your Grandmere and Lars were in New York after you'd left?" Michael asked.

"Yes", Mia nodded, "but I don't think I was ever told why" she added thoughtfully.

"You don't think they came over because of Jackie do you?" Michael tried.

"No" Mia shook her head and almost laughed, "that's ridiculous. Why would my Grandmere take Lars back to the USA to see his girlfriend? And even if she had, why would he go over twice and then never go back?"

"Well, the only person who can answer that is Lars" Michael concluded, just as a tap came on the door.

"Come in!" the Queen called.

"Your majesty, may I speak with you and your family" Lars asked as he entered the room, "I feel I should explain to you, as well as my daughter, how Diana came to be. I think I can also explain why I did not know of her existence"

Mia smiled at the man she called her friend as well as her bodyguard.

"You do not have to explain to us" she told him, "but we will listen to whatever you want to tell us"

"Thankyou, your majesties" he said, smiling at all three of them, "I will fetch Diana"

A/N : More coming soon, I promise. In the meantime, please REVIEW - you know how much it means to me and it might even spur me on to write and post faster.