He will be joined by representatives of several European and international royal families.

Romania’s King Michael I died last week in Switzerland at the age of 96.

He was repatriated today when his remains where transported on a military plane from Switzerland.

A short religious ceremony took place at Bucharest's airport attended by Michael's five daughters and his estranged grandson Nicholas Medforth-Mills, who was stripped of his title in 2015.

Soldiers carried the flag-draped coffin of late King and flags were flown at half-mast.

Michael’s remains were then transported to Peles Castle in the mountain resort of Sinaia, a place not far from where the former King was born on on October 25, 1921.

At the royal palace in Bucharest, where Michael's coffin will lie in state for two days before his funeral, people paid their respects.

Hundreds of flowers, candles, poems and flags were placed on the palace railings.

The former king had ruled Romania twice and was forced to abdicate by the communists in 1947.

Cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, Michel had blood ties to major European Royal Houses.

His daughter Princess Margareta is the goddaughter of Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh.

Michael had played a key role in Romania’s switch to the Allied cause following a coup in 1944 and only got back his citizenship in 1997, eight years after the collapse of communism in Romania.

Michel, who had been suffering from cancer, retired from public life last year handing over responsibilities to his eldest daughter,  Princess Margareta.