Princess Catherine recently made a heartfelt public appearance. During a visit to the Wellbeing Garden at Colchester Hospital, she planted a rose in her honor—Catherine’s Rose. This visit, which also marked her first public appearance since canceling a visit to Royal Ascot,

Catherine, Princess of Wales, is giving a raw look into her life after cancer and opening up about the recovery process. During a new public appearance at a hospital in Essex, England, the former Kate Middleton spoke to patients about her own experience with cancer.

You’re not necessarily under the clinical team any longer, but you’re not able to function normally at home as you perhaps once used to,” the Princess of Wales said Wednesday.