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A new theme park ride which allows people to experience the crash which killed Princess Diana has sparked outrage.

The ride opens this week and charges £20 a time to take part.

People will be able to vote at the end of the experience as to whether they believe the Royal Family was involved in the fatal crash.

The attraction is part of a new park celebrating US magazine the National Enquirer and opens tomorrow in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, reports DevonLive.

Creator Robin Turner said: “It’s a 3D computer model, and you’re looking down on what looks just like Paris, but it’s three-dimensional.

“It’s projected, and you see the buildings and everything in a 3D presentation.

“And it shows the pathway as she left the Ritz hotel, and the paparazzi chasing her, and the bang-flash that we think blinded the driver and how it happened.”

Turner told website Daily Beast : “There’s no blood. There’s none of that. You see the car crash through computer animation.”

The attraction will lead people through conspiracy theories surrounding the crash.

Turner said: “You will be polled on what you believe was the cause of her death and who was behind it. We ask questions like ‘Do you think the Royals were involved?’ ‘Do you think she was pregnant?’ All we do is ask questions on what’s your opinion.”

But the attraction has been unsurprisingly controversial.

Chanel Law-Smith, 29, is a self-confessed royalist, and was horrified by the new ride.

She said: “As someone who loves the royal family and thinks they are such a source of inspiration for so many, I think this is incredibly insensitive.

“Princess Diana was loved by millions all over the world and something like this just cheapens who she was and will always be to so many people.”

(Image: John Stillwell/PA Wire)

One Twitter user, Amelie, echoed Chanel’s sentiments saying: “I’m no royalist, but this is the absolute depths.”

However, Turner says: "It’s definitely not in poor taste. It’s just showing the route of what happened.

"For people who’ve never been to Paris, it’s just showing the topography, and the distance, and the tunnel, and that kind of stuff. It’s done very professionally."

Rick Laney, head of communications for the park, confirmed to the Mirror that the attraction existed, although said it was a “small part” of the 'Royal Closet' attraction.

(Image: John Stillwell/PA Wire)

He said: “It features an interactive screen where you can flip through the closets of royal family members and an activity where you can examine their family trees.

“The Diana piece is only a small part.”

The Princess, 36, was killed alongside Dodi Fayed, 42, in the backseat of a Mercedes Benz S280 driven by Henri Paul on August 31, 1997.

Investigators said the vehicle crashed at an estimated 65 miles per hour into a concrete pillar in Paris’ Pont de l’Alma tunnel. Mr Paul, 41, also died.

The park is said to have 100 attractions within its 20,000-square foot space including a tribute to the famed September 1977 Enquirer cover photo of the corpse of Elvis Presley in its open coffin.