And he said, 'The old king's dead, the old king's died.' He was so royal it was untrue".
For the sake of stability, and out of respect for the dead king, the royal family, local politicians, ordinary Jordanians and a panoply of world leaders have rallied behind King Abdullah.The support is not only moral.
Well, for me (having written a novel about Howard Carter's discovery), it was exquisitely eerie, but I reckon the fanfare that accompanied the dead king to the underworld would have raised the hairs on anyone's neck.
("The king is dead, long live the king," Dijana said, in 2008, after Djokovic beat Federer, predicting that her son would soon be No. 1).
The walls were in many cases covered with sculptured and painted scenes depicting the dead king in the presence of deities, especially the gods of the underworld, and with illustrated magical texts similar to those found in funerary papyri, designed to help him on his journey through the nether regions.
It shows the face of the dead king emerging from the maw of an enormous jaguar.
"The king is dead, long live the king, and the prime minister has our support".
The king is dead, long live the king and all that.
"The king is dead; long live the king" was the answer, not always uncontested, of European hereditary monarchy to the question of who should rule after the death of the king.
"The king is dead; long live the king," one minister said after ministers lined up in a weekly cabinet meeting to swear fealty to Mr. Landry, a political veteran who helped found the Parti Québécois in 1968.
