Born into a reigning family or privileged class:the hero, Simba, is born to the purple...
Somehow, I find that frank ‘I was born to the purple’ sort of elitism easier to stomach than their attitude.
It is worth noting that he was clearly not born to the purple.
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna Romanov was the only child ‘born to the purple’, and she was a welcome change from the horror of the previous 18 months.