A time capsule that Princess Diana buried in London in 1991 has been unearthed, 34 years later, on Wednesday, August 27.The late royal buried a capsule of ’90s items in a wall at the Great Ormond Street Hospital.Diana’s capsule was opened early as the hospital prepares for new construction.<\/p>\n
Princess Diana<\/a>\u2019s time capsule from 1991 has been unearthed, 34 years later\u2014and its contents confirm that the late royal really was the people\u2019s princess. On Wednesday, August 27, the capsule\u2014which Diana buried six years before her death in a wall at the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London\u2014was opened, serving up some major \u201890s nostalgia.\n<\/p>\n According to NBC News<\/a>, the capsule is a treasure trove of mementos that provide a snapshot of the decade, including an early, battery-operated pocket TV (a predecessor to modern-day smartphones) as well as a solar-powered calculator. A copy of The Times newspaper the day the capsule was buried, a photo of Princess Diana, a sheet of recycled paper, and a European passport were also included.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n A CD of Kylie Minogue\u2019s Rhythm of Love album, which was released in 1990, also was in the capsule, along with some British coins, five tree seeds, and a snowflake hologram. The capsule wasn\u2019t set to be excavated for hundreds of years, but it got an early open date due to the hospital\u2019s construction on a new children\u2019s cancer center.\n<\/p>\n Princess Diana opening a new unit at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London.<\/p>\n Getty Images<\/p>\n While it\u2019s tempting to think that Princess Diana was listening to \u201cWhat Do I Have To Do\u201d in her spare time, the royal didn\u2019t choose the memorabilia by herself. The late royal and president of the hospital helped two kids who\u2019d won a competition put on by British children’s TV show Blue Peter come up with a list of things that best represented life in the \u201890s.\n<\/p>\n Princess Diana laying ceremonial foundation stone at a London hospital in 1990.<\/p>\n Getty Images<\/p>\n Princess in Diana in 1990.<\/p>\n Getty Images<\/p>\n Today, Princess Diana remains a timeless style<\/a> and beauty icon\u2014and her legacy has been carried on by daughter-in-laws Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle, who are both fond of raiding the late royal\u2019s jewelry vault<\/a>. The Princess of Wales inherited her mother-in-law\u2019s iconic sapphire and diamond engagement ring<\/a>, while the Duchess of Sussex has been spotted regularly donning priceless heirloom pieces<\/a> from the late royal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A time capsule that Princess Diana buried in London in 1991 has been unearthed, 34 years later, on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-102007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}