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Is Charles III taller than Diana, Princess of Wales?

Not by their listings: Charles III and Diana, Princess of Wales are both listed at 5 ft 10 in.

Charles III: taller than about 63 in 100 US men. Diana, Princess of Wales: taller than 95 in 100 US women.

Diana, Princess of Wales is taller than Charles III by 0.1 in (0.2 cm).Charles III: 5 ft 10 in (177.8 cm). Diana, Princess of Wales: 5 ft 10 in (178 cm).Gap below drawing resolution

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Charles III
Diana, Princess of Wales

Charles and Diana married in 1981 and divorced in 1996.

These rounded published listings give an approximate gap. They do not account for shoes or posture in a photograph.

Where these heights come from

Charles III is commonly listed at 5 ft 10 in (177.8 cm). See all of Charles III’s listed heights.

Diana, Princess of Wales is commonly listed at 5 ft 10 in (178 cm). See all of Diana, Princess of Wales’s listed heights.

Photos: Charles III by White House, Public domain; Diana, Princess of Wales by John Mathew Smith, celebrity-photos.com, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.

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Charles III, 5 ft 10 in (178 cm), and Diana, Princess of Wales, 5 ft 10 in (178 cm), drawn to scale on one baseline