 Douglas Hurd , once Home 's private secretary , and many years later his successor ( after seven intermediate holders of the post ) as Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , wrote this personal comment : " The three most courteous men I knew in politics were Lord Home , King Hussein of Jordan , and President Nelson Mandela . All three had ease of birth , in the sense that they never needed to worry about who they themselves were and so had more time to concern themselves with the feelings of others . " 
