Kamalesh Sharma, the Commonwealth's secretary-general, reckons he has the "most spectacular office in London." Through one window he views St James's Palace, stolidly Tudor; through another the royal park and Whitehall, sparkling on an autumn day. Mr Sharma, a retired Indian diplomat, also has a cushy job. It comes with a Mayfair mansion and, for an accomplished but laid-back grandee, nothing too demanding to do.
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