Princess Diana is long gone, but not forgotten — nor was the time capsule she once buried.
The Great Ormond Street Hospital in London announced Wednesday that a wooden box of then-popular items had been securely retrieved from its walls, decades after Diana planted it there in 1991 to commemorate the start of construction on the renowned children’s clinic.
While the box was meant to be opened only centuries later, the hospital said development of a new cancer center first required “outdated facilities” to be demolished. Diana’s capsule was thus retrieved earlier this year, while its contents have only just now been revealed.
The previously mysterious assortment included a CD copy of Kylie Minogue’s 1990 album “Rhythm of Love,” a picture of Diana, British coins, a snowflake hologram, local tree seeds, a solar-powered calculator and the height of 1991 technology — a Casio pocket TV.
It also held a copy of The Times newspaper featuring headlines on the Gulf War.
