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The coffin with King Mihai I's body arrived on Wednesday evening, around 20:20, at the Royal Palace of Bucharest, where, until Saturday, people who admired the former sovereign can pay him a last homage.
Hundreds of persons outside the Royal Palace brought with them portraits of the former sovereign, flowers and flags with Romania's royal insignia in order to welcome King Mihai I.
The Victoria Road is cradled by Romania's flags, bearing a black mourning band.
The funeral procession returned from Sinaia, where the coffin with the king's body was laid for a couple of hours in the Hall of Honour of the Peles Castle.
President Klaus Iohannis, Prime Minister Mihai Tudose, members of the Executive, Speaker of the Deputies' Chamber Liviu Dragnea, Senate President Calin Popescu-Tariceanu and members of the foreign diplomatic corps accredited in Bucharest paid King Mihai I a last homage.
On its way to the Royal Palace, the funeral procession, that was hailed throughout the route by common people, passed under the Arch of Triumph.
Both the car carrying the royal crown and the car carrying the coffin of the former sovereign of Romania passed through the Arch of Triumph on Wednesday evening. Hundreds of people hailed him in the street and threw flowers throughout the route towards the funeral procession.
Immediately after the coffin with the king's body was laid in the Throne Hall of the Royal Palace, a private religious service was officiated.
All those wanting to lay flowers and bow before the King'a bier can come to the Throne Hall of the Royal Palace, as of Wednesday, Thursday from 8:00 to 22:00 and Friday between 8:00 and 22:00.
The Gov't decreed 14,15 and 16 December as national days of mourning on Romania's soil in the memory of King Mihai I.
King Mihai I died on 5 December, at 96 years of age, at his residence in Switzerland.
AGERPRES .
