Museums Princess Diana in her "revenge dress" in the Paris wax museum
Princess Diana has moved into the Musée Grévin wax museum in Paris in her body-hugging "revenge dress". A good 28 years after her accidental death, the museum unveiled the sculpture of Lady Di on Thursday.
20.11.2025, 12:46
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"Diana is still an important figure in global pop culture, admired for her style, her humanity and her independence," the museum emphasized. Her dress is a "statement of her new self-confidence and femininity".
The replica Diana is wearing an off-the-shoulder black dress based on the model that the real Diana wore in 1994 on the day her husband Prince Charles publicly admitted his affair with Camilla Parker-Bowles. At the time, British media spoke of the "revenge dress" with which Diana wanted to express her new freedom.
The Princess of Wales, who often made a name for herself with her extravagant style, has found her place in the Musée Grevin among other fashion icons - close to fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier and singer Aya Nakamura.
Diana's ex-husband King Charles III and her late ex-mother-in-law Queen Elizabeth II have long been represented in the Musée Grévin. Despite Diana's close connection to Paris, where she died in a car accident in a tunnel in 1997, the Musée Grévin waited almost three decades before also giving her a place.
The wax museum hit the headlines in the summer because environmental activists stole the statue of French President Emmanuel Macron for a protest. They later returned it undamaged.
