Paris wax museum unveils new Diana figure in ‘revenge dress,’ decades after her death in the city

PARIS (AP) — A wax museum in Paris on Thursday unveiled a new figure of the late Princess Diana depicted in a black dress that has come to be known as her “ revenge dress,” decades after her tragic death in the city.

The Grevin Museum, one of Europe’s oldest wax museums, dressed the life-size figure of the late Princess of Wales in the black, off-the-shoulder, figure-hugging cocktail dress Diana wore to a Serpentine Gallery event in London in 1994. It was the same night that King Charles III — at the time Prince Charles — acknowledged on television that he had been unfaithful with Camilla Parker Bowles.

For Paris, the tribute carried extra weight. Diana died in a car crash in a tunnel by the Seine River in 1997, and the city still draws admirers who leave flowers and notes at informal me