Since rotating the people, by convention, yields the "same" arrangement, we can assume that Hardy, who just won the Nobel Prize, sits on the one throne among the chairs.
Then Julian selects one of the chairs away from Hardy. She has $5$ choices. For each of these $5$ choices, the remaining $6$ people can be arranged in the remaining $6$ chairs in $6!$ ways, for a total of $(5)(6!)$.