Princess Diana enters Paris waxwork museum in ‘revenge dress’

The Grevin waxwork museum in Paris unveiled a new star attraction on Thursday: Princess Diana in the “revenge dress” she wore after public revelations about her then-husband Prince Charles’s infidelity.

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The Grevin Museum in central Paris, similar to Madame Tussauds in London, already has models of Charles, who is now King Charles, and his late mother, Queen Elizabeth.

But Diana was a notable absentee, despite her tragic association with the city where she died in a car crash in August 1997.

She is displayed wearing a copy of the black gown by designer Christina Stambolian that she wore for a public appearance in 1994 amid a media frenzy about the breakdown of her marriage to Charles.

She stepped out in the dazzling off-the-shoulder dress on the same day as an interview was broadcast in which Charles admitted to being unfaithful.

The “revenge dress” was an evening gown worn by Diana, Princess of Wales, to a 1994 dinner at the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens. Photo: AFP
The “revenge dress” was an evening gown worn by Diana, Princess of Wales, to a 1994 dinner at the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens. Photo: AFP

“More than 28 years after her tragic death in Paris, Diana is still a major figure in global pop culture, celebrated for her style, humanity and independence,” the Grevin Museum said in a statement.

  

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