PARIS (AP) \u2014 Princess Diana<\/a> returned to Paris in wax Thursday as one of Europe\u2019s oldest wax museums unveiled a new figure of the British royal in the so-called \u201crevenge dress,\u201d decades after her tragic death in the city.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The statue was ordered in Paris after the director of the Grevin Museum visited London and came away underwhelmed by the Diana likeness at Madame Tussauds, prompting him to commission his own version, museum officials said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Grevin\u2019s life-size \u2014 and very convincing \u2014 figure of the late Princess of Wales is dressed in a replica of the black, off-the-shoulder, figure-hugging cocktail dress<\/a> Diana wore to a Serpentine Gallery event in London in 1994.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n It was the same night that King Charles III \u2014 at the time Prince Charles<\/a> \u2014 acknowledged on television that he had been unfaithful with Camilla Parker Bowles<\/a>, now Queen Camilla.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n For Paris, the tribute carried extra weight: Diana \u2014 \u201cLady Di\u201d to the French, who still use the nickname affectionately even though she spent most of her public life as a princess \u2014 died after a car crash<\/a> in a tunnel by the Seine in 1997, a death that helped immortalize her in the Parisian imagination, where she still remains present in the flowers and handwritten notes left at informal memorials.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Museum officials noted that the unveiling came on the 30th anniversary of an explosive interview that Diana gave to BBC \u201cPanorama,\u201d which observers say dented the standing of the monarchy and the Queen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Some observers noted wryly how the museum\u2019s newest royal guest was positioned far from wax likenesses of her famous ex-husband and mother-in-law.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n![\"Some](\"https:\/\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/691f4aad17000069799c6459.jpeg?cache=7q1xo8lbnJ&ops=scalefit_720_noupscale&format=webp)
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