Liam Payne's One Direction bandmates among the mourners at singer's funeral

LONDON -- The erstwhile members of One Direction reunited Tuesday for the ceremonial of bandmate Liam Payne.

Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson joined friends and household to astatine the work for 31-year-old Payne, who died aft falling from a edifice balcony successful Buenos Aires past month.

A horse-drawn carriage carried the coffin to St. Mary's Church successful Amersham, 25 miles (40 kilometers) northwest of London. Undertakers carried the acheronian bluish casket with metallic handles, topped with achromatic roses, into the 800-year-old religion for the backstage service.

The ceremonial determination was not made nationalist successful beforehand to forestall a ample assemblage from gathering, though dozens of section radical and fans inactive gathered nearby.

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The assemblage fell soundless erstwhile Payne's parents, Geoff and Karen, emerged from a car to basal beside the horse-drawn carriage, which was topped with floral tributes speechmaking "Son" and "Daddy." Payne had a 7-year-old son, Bear, with the vocalist Cheryl Tweedy.

Among the mourners was Payne's woman Kate Cassidy, histrion and presenter James Corden, erstwhile shot subordinate Robbie Keane and euphony mogul Simon Cowell who enactment One Direction together.

The set formed successful 2010 aft the 5 teenagers auditioned for "The X-Factor" arsenic solo acts and were brought unneurotic by Cowell, a justice connected the show. With their loyal instrumentality basal of "Directioners" they became 1 of the astir palmy lad bands of each time.

After the radical divided successful 2016, Payne embarked connected a solo vocation which failed to lucifer the occurrence of One Direction. He was besides unfastened astir struggling with his intelligence wellness and intoxicant amid the pressures of fame.

Prosecutors successful Argentina said that Payne had traces of alcohol, cocaine and a medicine antidepressant successful his strategy erstwhile helium fell to his decease from the third-floor balcony of his country astatine the Casa Sur Hotel successful the Argentine superior connected Oct. 16. They person charged 3 radical implicit his death, with "abandonment of a idiosyncratic followed by death" and "supplying and facilitating the usage of narcotics."