@bluebell34567
he is like a loose canon like Diana became in her later years.
Do you know where that phrase "loose cannon* came from in relation to Diana?
She was touring Angola in 1997 , for the HALO Trust which had been working to clear land mines in the region for three years. At the time Angola had more land mines than any other country in the world I think, it was certainly ravaged by civil war and a dangerous place to visit.
The BBC alleged that the comment came from Junior Defence Minister, Earl Howe, although he later distanced himself from them. He ( Tory) basically said that Diana was aligning herself with the Labour opposition who were calling for an immediate British ban on landmines and called her a loose cannon. Diana insisted she was there for humanitarian reasons only.
This was all very dubious because it was not long after her divorce from Charles during the period when Nicolas Soames (senior colleague of said Tory Minister) and a known friend of the Prince of Wales, and his cronies, were allegedly briefing against Diana.
It was all a load of crap too as the founder of the organisation said Diana's involvement in the issue was a turning point in the fight for a ban:
www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cumbria-41111012
"Just over three months after her death, 122 governments signed up to the Ottawa Treaty, which aimed to eliminate the production and use of mines."
And as Time magazine reported, the exposure she gave the issue created an added impetus for the treaty process:
“[President Bill] Clinton and his wife Hillary had been touched by the Princess of Wales’ poignant visits to young victims of such mines in Bosnia and Angola a few weeks ago. After her death, the [mine bans] treaty being written in Oslo took on the luster of a humanitarian memorial to Diana and her cause.”
It's such a shame that phrase has stuck with her when it had such dubious, not to mention erroneous, origins.