{"id":584029,"date":"2025-11-21T05:11:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T05:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/584029\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T05:11:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T05:11:23","slug":"princess-diana-waxwork-unveiled-in-paris-30-years-after-her-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/584029\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Diana waxwork unveiled in Paris 30 years after her death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paris\u2019s Grevin Museum has unveiled a striking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grevin-paris.com\/en\/actualites\/lady-diana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new waxwork of the People\u2019s Princess<\/a>, nearly 30 years after her death in the French capital, reports AP.<\/p>\n<p>The real headline isn\u2019t the convincing likeness \u2013 those striking eyes and mischievous smile beautifully recreated in wax \u2013 but the outfit. Diana\u2019s figure wears the black, off-the-shoulder silk evening gown so famous it has its own Wikipedia page: the revenge dress.<\/p>\n<p>She wore it to a London fundraiser the same night Charles publicly acknowledged his infidelity. The knee-length gown had hung in her wardrobe for three years, deemed too daring for royal protocol. French novelist Christine Orban called the dress a significant step in Diana\u2019s liberation from the royal family.<\/p>\n<p>[<strong>See more:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/macaonews.org\/news\/around-the-world\/prince-andrew-stripped-title\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">No longer a prince: Andrew stripped of royal title by Britain\u2019s King Charles<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first Diana waxwork \u2013 Madame Tussauds has featured her for years in demure poses wearing tailored suits or floor-length gowns. Grevin commissioned their version after their director found the London statue underwhelming.The Grevin figure, standing at nearly 178 centimetres, captures Diana\u2019s larger-than-life personality rather than royal restraint. Museum officials timed the unveiling for the 30th anniversary of her bombshell BBC Panorama interview that permanently damaged the royal family\u2019s reputation. They\u2019ve placed her away from King Charles, unveiled in 2023, and the late Queen Elizabeth, instead positioning her alongside another ill-fated royal: Marie Antoinette.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paris\u2019s Grevin Museum has unveiled a striking new waxwork of the People\u2019s Princess, nearly 30 years after her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-584029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-royal","9":"tag-royal-families","10":"tag-royal-family","11":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115585973152535443","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}