Meghan Markle has opened up about what life was really like when she and Prince Harry first stepped back from their royal roles — admitting they had “no plan” at all, other than to recover and rebuild.

Speaking at the Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit in Washington D.C., the Duchess of Sussex reflected on the period five years ago when she and Harry made their move to the U.S. She described it as “a very different situation” and suggested her only focus at the time was to “nest and heal” — a remark some have interpreted as a subtle nod to her departure from royal life.

“You know, Archie was so little, and I had just got pregnant with Lili around that same time,” Meghan told Fortune’s editor-in-chief Alyson Shontell. “So we were nesting — nesting and healing. And honestly, I didn’t have the bandwidth then to think about what the big-picture dream was. There was no plan. It was just, let’s get through these next couple of years, create community, which was always so important to both of us in our new environment.”

The Duchess said that in those early years, she spent most of her time “in Birkenstocks and sweats,” joking that she was “making a lot of jam” rather than planning her next big move.