You Probably Never Noticed This Weird Detail in Princess Diana and Prince Charles' Photos
Why was Diana made to look shorter than her husband, when actually they were the same height?
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You know when you go for ages without noticing something, but then someone points it out and you just can't un-see it? Yeah, that's happened to us with these old photos of Prince Charles and Princess Diana.
As pointed out in two Twitter posts by two separate accounts recently, it looks very much like Prince Charles is taller than Princess Diana in all these photos, doesn't it?
They were the same height pic.twitter.com/I9YVAcU4hnMarch 18, 2017
But the thing is, Diana was the same height as Prince Charles. See?
And a quick Google search confirms it, Prince William and Prince Harry's parents both measure in at 1.78metres, or approximately 5'10".
So it seems a bit odd, doesn't it, if this illusion was trying to be created on purpose? If such extreme lengths were gone to to make Prince Charles seem more 'manly' or something by being taller.
Height's just...height, right?
As pointed out by Twitter user @LuciHoneyChurch, if there was some fixation on disguising Princess Diana's height compared to her husband's, it's arguably a fairly sexist, conformist thing to have done.
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They were the same height pic.twitter.com/2dPFaa9XVNMarch 16, 2017
Because what's the big deal if a man isn't taller than his wife?
Interesting.
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