The unexpected Aussie item discovered in Princess Diana's '90s time capsule

A recently unearthed time capsule buried by Princess Diana in March 1991 at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) features an unexpected Australian link.

The then Princess of Wales, with the help of two kids, sealed the time capsule and laid it together with the foundation stone at a ceremony 34 years ago.

The contents were decided through a competition and it's understood the two kids, who were also competition winners, got the seal of approval from royal as they loaded up the capsule.

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GOSH is now undergoing a massive redevelopment as it builds a new children's cancer centre and as a result was forced to remove the capsule and foundation stone.

Inside was a treasure trove of moisture-damaged items including an unexpected find – a Kylie Minogue CD.

Minogue's third studio album, Rhythm of Love, which was released in 1990, made the cut and was found in the capsule.

The Aussie pop icon has a long association with members of the royal family, after first performing in the Royal Variety Show in 1988.

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The time capsule also included a pocket television, a solar-powered calculator, British coins and a European passport, as well as a number of other smaller things.

Princess Diana became patron of the world-renowned children's hospital in 1989 and visited frequently, all the way to just months before her death in 1997.

The original hope when it was buried at the hospital's entrance 34 years ago, was that it would be opened 100 years down the track but the construction changed plans.

Diana's 1991 ceremony was designed to mirror one at the hospital in 1872, when the then Princess of Wales Alexandra of Denmark laid a sealed time capsule with the foundation stone for the hospital's older building.

That capsule has never been found, making this one all the more important to the hospital.

To honour Diana's ceremony, only those working at the hospital in 1991 or those who were born in 1991 were part of the extraction crew.

"It brought back so many memories seeing the pocket TV in there," Janet Holmes, Senior Health Play Specialist, who was working at GOSH in 1991 said of her favourite item in the capsule.

"I had bought one for my husband back in the day, for when he had a break whilst driving his coach around the country. They were very expensive then!"

On the flip side, Rochana Redkar, who is now a clinical fellow at the Paediatric Haematology Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, was born the year the capsule was buried.

"I had just joined GOSH six months before and I was so excited to be involved in the removal of the time capsule, which was buried the year I was born," she said.

Minogue, who just completed her Tension world tour this week, is yet to comment on the inclusion.

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