Diana 90S princess capsule contains Kylie CD and Pocket TV

A time capsule buried by Diana, princess of Wales at the Great Ormond Street Hospital (Gosh) in 1991, was opened, revealing a CD Kylie Minogue, a solar calculator and a passport.

The lead wooden box was sealed to mark the installation of the foundation stone of the building club of varieties of the hospital, which opened in 1994.

The articles in the capsule were selected by two children who won a Blue Peter competition and were intended to represent life in the 1990s. Other objects included pocket television, a snowflake hologram and a photo of Princess Diana.

The temporal capsule had to be unearthed in “hundreds of years”, but was unearthed to make room for the construction of a cancer center for children.

Princess Diana became president of Gosh in 1989 and visited the children’s hospital several times before her death in 1997.

She helped the two children select the articles to be placed in the time capsule.

The CD of the Rhythm of Love album by Kylie Minogue, which was released in 1990 and presents the songs “ Better the Devil You Know ‘, `What i do is to do’, and” Shoked “was one of the 10 elements included.

The CD was chosen by David Watson, then 11, from Paignton, Devon. He also selected a recycled paper sheet and a passport.

Sylvia Foulkes, then 9 years old, from Norwich, chose a collection of British pieces, a container with five tree seeds and the hologram of snowflakes.

The box also included a copy of the Journal Times from the date of the funeral of the capsule.

The big titles of his first page include: “The cooked meats bring out the Soviet mass voters” – alongside a photo of the former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev – and “the United States rejects Iraqi war planes plead like nearby rebels”.

The images published by archivists show damage to objects, but they are largely intact.

The staff who were born in 1991 or already worked at the hospital in 1991 helped to withdraw it.

The burial of the time capsule was similar to a ceremony in 1872 during which the princess of Wales of the time, Alexandra, laid a foundation stone at the hospital, also sealing a time capsule.

This temporal capsule, which contained a photo of Queen Victoria, was not found.

The New Children’s Cancer Center of Gosh will be a “national resource for the treatment of childhood cancers”, according to a statement.

Its design will help clinical teams develop “nicer and more effective treatments” for children staying in the hospital.