Julian Leighton came to the Holiday Village purely by luck. The Leighton Family is well known in the Imperial City, but they're not at the top - a large but middling powerful family. As they say, every family has its own troubles.
His father is famously frivolous, with one mistress after another, resulting in so many children in the Leighton Family that they could stage a drama about palace intrigues, with all of them acting true to character.
Julian was lucky enough to be born to the first wife, which granted him the title of legitimate heir. However, his beautiful and kind mother was vexed to death by the mistresses, and his father remarried, so there wasn't just one legitimate heir.
