In the section titled, Saturday, October 4-Tuesday, October 7, we meet Mia's father.... a man who is far more interested in policy, sports, and his own life than he is in being a father. Phillipe Renaldo, Mia's father, is representative of the man Josh Richter will becomes, and as such, foreshadows the way in which Mia and Josh's relationship is doomed to fail.
The Princess Diaries