Lady Diana, after 34 years open the capsule of the time that the princess buried in 1991: this is what it contains

Return to the nineties, within a few moments: this is what happened (ideally) at the staff of Great Ormond Street Hospital of London, where a sort of time capsule, buried by Lady Diana In the March 1991, The year in which the first stone of the Variety Club Building was laid, a liver and kidney pediatric transplant center that would have been inaugurated in 1994.

Lady Diana at the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London in March 1991.

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An opening that took place well in advance of the expected, even if the original intent to reveal the content of the capsule “In hundreds of years” He did not have a precise date. The fault, so to speak, of some works that will lead to the opening – by 2028- of a new oncological center within the London pediatric hospital.

Lady Diana became the godmother of the Ermond Hospital in the late eighties and remained until her death.

Lady Diana became the godmother of the Ermond Hospital in the late eighties and remained until her death.

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At the time when the capsule was buried, the initiative had a great echo, just think that the TV program Blue Peter He launched a competition to select two children who should have chosen the objects to be entrusted to the future. David Watson won, who was 11 years old, and Sylvia Foulkes, 9, who in the lead box inserted a Kylie Minogue CD, Rhythm of love, a Casio pocket TV, a collection of coins and a solar energy calculator, as well as a copy of the Times, to a photograph of the same lady Diana and the ologram of a snowflake. The paper objects were compromised by humidity, as the photos published on the hospital website tell, the others were almost intact.

The capsule, in reality, was removed about six months ago, even if the news of the opening has been spread only recently, almost in conjunction with the 28th anniversary of the death of the princess, who disappeared on August 31, 1997 in Paris, following a road accident.

Alexandra of Denmark Princess of Wales before Diana and equally popular wife of Edoardo VII.

Alexandra of Denmark, Princess of Wales before Diana and equally popular, wife of Edoardo VII.

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Lady Diana was not the only princess to have entrusted a time of time to posterity. The same thing happened in 1872, when another princess of Wales, AlexandraI will breathe his capsule on the occasion of the laying of the first stone of the old building of the Hormond Hospital. That capsule of time, however, has never been found. Another fascinating story. Who knows if “in hundreds of years” someone will find it in his hands.

Source: Vanity Fair

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