Paris wax museum unveils new Diana figure in 'revenge dress'

PARIS —

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 memoria