Several additional members of royal families from Europe have confirmed the attendance to King Michael\u2019s funeral on December 16.\u00a0Representatives of royal families of Britain, Sweden, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Bulgaria, Greece, and Serbia, among others, will be in Bucharest this Saturday.<\/p>\n
The late king will be buried at Curtea de Arges on December 16. Funeral ceremonies will take place in Bucharest the same day.<\/p>\n
The King of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf and his wife, Queen Silvia of Sweden will come to Bucharest for the event, according to\u00a0their agenda<\/a>. From the royals set to attend, the Swedish King and Queen are among those ruling.<\/p>\n Princess Astrid of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este, and Prince Lorenz will\u00a0also attend<\/a>. The princess is the second child of King Albert II and Queen Paola of Belgium. Prince Lorenz of Belgium is a member of the Royal Council of the Romanian royal family.<\/p>\n Simeon II of Bulgaria, the last Bulgarian monarch, who also served as Prime Minister of Bulgaria from 2001 to 2005, is also on the list of those who will attend the funeral.\u00a0King Simeon already arrived in Bucharest on December 14, the first foreign royal to come to the Romanian capital for the event. He paid his respects to the late King Michael in the Throne\u2019s Hall, at the Royal Palace.<\/p>\n Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg is also set to attend the funeral ceremonies. The current Grand Duke of Luxembourg has been reigning since October 2000.<\/p>\n The attendance of Charles, Prince of Wales, had been announced\u00a0earlier in the week<\/a>.\u00a0King Michael was a third-degree cousin of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain, the mother of Prince Charles.<\/p>\n Queen Do\u00f1a Sof\u00eda of Spain, a first degree cousin of King Michael, and Juan Carlos I of Spain, who reigned from 1975 until his abdication in 2014, will\u00a0attend the funeral ceremonies<\/a>\u00a0as well.\u00a0Queen Sofia of Spain was the first child of King Paul of Greece, the brother of Queen Elena of Romania, who was the mother of King Michael.<\/p>\n Queen Anne-Marie of Greece, born Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark, will be present as well. She is the wife of King Constantine II, who reigned from 1964 until 1973. The mother of King Michael,\u00a0Helen of Greece and Denmark, was the daughter of\u00a0 King Constantine I of Greece and his wife Sophia of Prussia.<\/p>\n Archduke Dominic of Austria is also reported to attend. He is the son of Princess Ileana of Romania,\u00a0the youngest daughter of King Ferdinand I of Romania and Queen Marie of Romania.<\/p>\n Other names on the list of those set to attend include Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia, the Duke of Braganza in Portugal, Leka, the Crown Prince of Albania, and Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark, according to\u00a0romaniaregala.ro<\/a>.<\/p>\n