Where does "Long Live the King" come from?

Question

Where does "Long Live the King" come from?

Answer 1

It comes from the english national anthem which is at the moment "long live the queen" but when the get a king it will be "Long Live the King".

Answer 2

Thank you Rachalle ... I have often wondered were the phrase originated, myself.

Answer 3

From ancient times when the king had more prominence.

Answer 4

The Bible.  

"And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the Lord hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people? And all the poeple shouted, and said, God save the King"

-- I Samuel 10: 24 (KJV)

2 Chronicles 23:11.

"Then they brought out the king's son and put the crown on him, and gave him the testimony and made him king. And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him and said, "Long live the king!"

Answer 5

It came from people wanting there King to live a long time. People valued the kings health and life to be more valuable than there on because he was the leader. Long live the king was an expression of this way of believing.

Answer 6

Jesus!!

Answer 7

It is the second part of an ancient phrase indicating the people's desire to have the monarchy endure.

At the death of one, they recognized the end but the crown was immediately transfererred to the new monarch.

"The King is dead, Long live the King"

Answer 8

The King is dead. Long live the King! is a traditional proclamation made following the accession of a new monarch in various European and North American countries, particularly in the United Kingdom and Canada. The original phrase was translated from the French Le Roi est mort. Vive le Roi!, which was first declared upon the coronation of Charles VII following the death of his father Charles VI in 1422. In France, the declaration was traditionally made by the Duc d'Uzès, a senior Peer of France, as soon as the coffin containing the remains of the previous king descended into the vault of Saint Denis Basilica. The phrase arose from the law of le mort saisit le vif—that the transfer of sovereignty occurs instantaneously upon the moment of death of the previous monarch.

At the time, French was the primary language of aristocrats in England, and the proclamation was quickly taken up as ideally representing the same tradition — which in England dates back to 1272, when Henry III died while his son, Edward I, was fighting in the Crusades. To avoid any chance of a civil war erupting over the order of succession, the Royal Council proclaimed "The throne shall never be empty; the country shall never be without a monarch." Thus, Edward was declared king immediately, and he ruled "in absentia" until news of his father's death reached him and he returned to England.

While "The King is dead. Long live the King" is commonly believed to be part of the official text of the Proclamation of Accession read out following the decision of the Accession Council as to the rightful heir to the throne, it is in fact only tradition that causes it to be recited immediately after the proclamation is read aloud in many villages and towns.

In some monarchies, such as the United Kingdom, an interregnum is usually avoided using "the king is dead, long live the King", i.e. the heir to the throne becomes a new monarch immediately on his predecessor's death or abdication. This famous phrase signifies the continuity of sovereignty, attached to a personal form of power named Auctoritas.