Truemors
Nepal's royal flag has been removed from the palace of deposed King Gyanendra.
On Thursday anti-monarchists were celebrating on the streets after an assembly vote to make the country a republic, abolishing the monarchy.
The king and his family have been given 15 days to leave the residence.
The abolition of the monarchy was a key demand of the former Maoist rebels who emerged from April's elections to the assembly as the biggest party.
The former king has yet to make any comment on Wednesday's vote.
One prominent newspaper has reported that that Gyanendra is packing his belongings and planning to leave his palace in Kathmandu on Friday.
'Gone for good'
The BBC's Charles Haviland in Kathmandu says that that people in Nepal woke up on Thursday to find that their kingdom has become a republic after 240 years of rule by the Shah dynasty.
Television stations have reported that the royal standard has been replaced by the Nepalese national flag.
In the main English-language papers on Thursday, there is no lamenting the fall of the Shah dynasty.
In the words of one paper, it has been "confined to history" and "gone for good".
Another accuses the family, whose rule encompassed 11 kings, of looting Nepal of its resources, making it one of the world's poorest countries.
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