born to the purple

Born to the purple means someone who is born into a life of wealth and privilege.

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You were born to the purple if you were a Lesley.

/ was not born to the purple, royalty's or Neoclona's.

"Born to the Purple" is an episode from the first season of the science-fiction television series Babylon 5.

Commodus was the first emperor "born to the purple", that is, born during his father's reign.

Its tint explains why he reigns famously as the king of Beaujolais: born to the purple.

You are born to the purple."

Then noble Greeks and Romans picked up purple, which is why we say "born to the purple."

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"Porphyrogenitus", meaning literally "born to the purple", indicating a child born to a reigning emperor.

She replaced Ko'Dath, who appeared only in "Born to the Purple," and was played by Mary Woronov.

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George Bush, the son of a senator, born to the purple, seems to have been equipped by heredity and background to cope with "the sort of thing" one endures as president.

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He could wear sack cloth and ashes and still be more a prince than most men born to the purple and dressed in the richest raiment and most costly jewels.

Adira Tyree, the dancer from "Born To The Purple", was poisoned by Mr. Morden, who persuades Londo that Lord Refa is responsible.

As Susan Ivanova comes to terms with her father's death (see Born to the Purple), an old friend of Garibaldi's comes to the station to participate in a dangerous alien martial arts contest.

"She was very comfortable with all kinds of people, which is not common for a woman who's born to the purple, so to speak," her friend Eppie Lederer (the advice columnist Ann Landers) once observed.

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Empresses gave birth in the Purple Chamber, and the Emperors born there were known as "born to the purple," to separate them from Emperors who won or seized the title through political intrigue or military force.

Porphyrogeniture, also sometimes referred to as born to the purple, is a system of political succession that favours the rights of sons born after their father has become king or emperor, over older siblings born before their father's assent to the throne.

The Science fiction series Babylon 5 episode Born to the Purple reveals that the password to the hedonistic ambassador Londo Mollari's 'Purple Files', blackmail material on other houses of the Centauri Republic, is "Wine, Women, Song".