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It's really appalling: China waxworks snubs Charles

Posted on: Tuesday, 2 May 2006, 00:14 CDT

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.

Source: REUTERS

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