It’s really appalling: China waxworks snubs Charles

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince Charles, who caused a
stir by describing Chinese officials as “appalling old
waxworks,” has failed to make the cut at Shanghai’s new Madame
Tussauds Museum.

Charles’s late wife, Princess Diana, and their elder son,
Prince William, are on display. Soccer star David Beckham and
his pop singer wife, Victoria, rub shoulders with celebrity
Hollywood couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

Charles’s unflattering reference was contained in a diary
he kept during a visit to Hong Kong in 1997 for the handover of
the former British colony to China. A British newspaper
published the diaries last November.

The Shanghai museum, which opened on Monday, is the sixth
Madame Tussauds. The others are in London, Amsterdam, Las
Vegas, New York and Hong Kong.

The China Daily said the most popular of the 70-plus
figures on opening day was that of the late Hong Kong singer
and movie star Leslie Cheung.