Is there a reason that the colour purple is associated with royalty?

Question

Was there some kind of real-world instance or happening we can point to that caused purple to become the “royal colour”?

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Answer 1

There was a great video about this on [youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJz2Z9JtNXk) that I watched a while ago. You will want to skip ahead to about 42:30 unless you want to learn about other crappy jobs that people had :). It explains the whole process really well