Just hours after delighting staff and patients with a visit to Colchester Hospital to discuss her cancer journey, the Princess of Wales made another secret stop to an important institution

Also during her visit, Kate took a moment to serve in the hospital’s Royal Horticultural Society Wellbeing Garden, which offers respite to patients, visitors and others. Kate planted several Catherine’s Rose plants in the garden, a rose the hospital named after the princess.

Kate Middleton can now issue Royal Warrants, with the last Princess of Wales able to do so being Mary of Teck, Queen Elizabeth II's grandmother.