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From House Beautiful
After months of video calls and virtual visits, the British royal family is beginning to ease out of lockdown. And this week, the Duchess of Cambridge made her second public outing since the global pandemic arrived in the UK.
As part of Children’s Hospice Week, which she and the Duchess of Cornwall kicked off in the video above, Kate helped to plant a garden at The Nook, one of the East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) facilities in Norfolk. Specifically, she contributed the plants she had bought at Fakenham Garden Centre last week, and worked with a volunteer gardener, staff at the facility, and two EACH families “to help create a space that would provide enjoyment for children and families, using sensory plants such as lavender, bay and rosemary.”
And despite her sweet floral dress by the label Faithful The Brand, Kate wasn’t afraid of getting a little messy while potting the greenery.
“She didn’t need the gardening gloves we offered her,” Tracy Rennie, EACH’s director of care, said, per ITV, “and even plunged her hands into the earth with that massive engagement ring on!”