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

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.

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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 19