A Paris maxwork museum has unveiled its new star attraction of the late Princess Diana in the “revenge dress” she wore after public revelations about her then-husband Prince Charles’s infidelity.<\/p>\n
The Grevin Museum, similar to Madame Tussauds in London, already has models of Charles, who is now King Charles III, and his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II.<\/p>\n
But Diana was a notable absentee, despite her tragic association with the city where she died in a car crash in August 1997.<\/p>\n
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Princess Diana is displayed wearing a copy of the black gown by designer Christina Stambolian.\u00a0 (Reuters: Abdul Saboor)<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
“The gown became a statement of reclaimed self-assertion, a powerful image of determined femininity and renewed confidence,” it added.<\/p>\n
Her waxwork is displayed far from King Charles and Queen Elizabeth, who are in a gallery for heads of state, with the late “Lady Di” standing alongside fashion and entertainment figures such as Jean Paul Gaultier and Franco-Malian singing star Aya Nakamura.<\/p>\n
The date chosen for the unveiling \u2014 November 20 \u2014 was also a “sly reference” to a bombshell interview she gave to the BBC on the same date exactly thirty years ago in which she said “there were three of us in this marriage, so it was a little bit crowded”.<\/p>\n
That was a reference to Camilla Parker-Bowles, whom Charles has since married.<\/p>\n
The high-pressure waxwork commission \u2014 which will be highly scrutinised by defenders of Diana’s memory \u2014 was handed to Paris-based sculptor Laurent Mallamaci.<\/p>\n
The Grevin Museum had been in contact with Diana at the end of her life but abandoned the idea of making a figure of her after her death, a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
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