The king is dead, long live the king! properly used in the United Kingdom in January 1936 when King George V was succeeded by his son King Edward VIII, who later abdicated, or "The Queen is dead, long live The Queen!" as happened in 1558, when Queen Mary I was succeeded by her half-sister, Queen Elizabeth I. In the Kingdom of Thailand, to conclude the national televised address on October 13, 2016 regarding the passing of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the Prime Minister proclaimed "His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej, Rama IX, has passed away. Long live His Majesty the new King." The king is dead, long live
The Queen of Spades (opera) is our life? A game!") a quote from Act 3 of the opera, became a proverb in Russian. "What? Where? When?", a trivia game and one of the most popular TV-shows in Russia and former Soviet countries, starts with a musical quotation from the opera, Herman singing the phrase "Life is but a game." The Queen of Spades (opera) The Queen of Spades, Op. 68 (, "Pikovaya dama", ) is an opera in 3 acts (7 scenes) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to a Russian libretto by the composer's brother Modest Tchaikovsky, based on a short story of the same name