Sir Jean-Luc le Meerkat III, Duke of Suricata, arrived in Havenburrow just over a meerkat decade ago with his wife Lady Chanel. The pair sought the world over for a place to call home that was both beautiful with all the amenities to which royalty are accustomed and secluded enough to live in peace away from the paparazzi and their overbearing royal families. They fell in love with Havenburrow almost instantly, and with their presence came a swift gentrification of the west end of the burrow.
While Mayor Ungulato Webster is the elected leader of Havenburrow, Sir Jean-Luc is the de facto leader. What he says goes. Period. The working class critters adore him, the outlaws provide for him, and the wisest are suspicious of him for reasons anyone should suspect an elite member of society. Simply put, he has and does whatever he wants in Havenburrow.
