Lady Amelia and Lady Eliza Spencer, nieces of Princess Diana, opened up about their late aunt in a new cover interview for Tatler magazine, reflecting on the "horrible" events that led Princess Diana to try to keep them away from the paparazzi. Twins Amelia and Eliza, daughters of Diana's brother, Earl Charles Spencer, and his ex-wife Victoria Aitken, spoke about losing their aunt at age five and realizing her global importance to them as they grew up.

"We always knew her just as an aunt," Eliza told Tatler (opens in new tab) via People (opens in new tab). 'Growing up in South Africa, I had little idea how important she was in the world until I was much older.' She described Diana as "incredibly warm, motherly, and loving," adding that "she always tried to connect with us as children and had a gift for reading our children's minds."

Eliza recounted an incident when paparazzi approached the twins while they were out on the beach with Princess Diana. She said, "For us, being so young, we didn't know what was going on and it was very frightening. But Diana made it into a game to see who could get back to the car first. It was amazing how she protected us in a way that made us feel safe and not scared," she recalled. 'We had no idea what she was doing at the time.'

"As a child, I realized the magnitude of what my father and family had lost. It wasn't until later that I came to understand what it meant to have lost her."