One Direction members reunite at Liam Payne’s funeral near London

The previous members of One Path reunited Tuesday for the funeral of bandmate Liam Payne.

Harry Kinds, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson joined family and friends on the service for 31-year-old Payne, who died after falling from a resort balcony in Buenos Aires final month.

A horse-drawn carriage carried the coffin to St. Mary’s Church in Amersham, 40 kilometres northwest of London. Undertakers carried the darkish blue casket with silver handles, topped with white roses, into the 800-year-old church for the personal service.

The funeral location was not made public prematurely to stop a big crowd from gathering, although dozens of native individuals and followers nonetheless gathered close by.

The gang fell silent when Payne’s mother and father, Geoff and Karen, emerged from a automobile to face beside the horse-drawn carriage, which was topped with floral tributes studying “Son” and “Daddy.” Payne had a seven-year-old son, Bear, with the singer Cheryl Tweedy.

Among the many mourners was Payne’s girlfriend Kate Cassidy, actor and presenter James Corden, former soccer participant Robbie Keane and music mogul Simon Cowell who put One Path collectively.

The band fashioned in 2010 after the 5 youngsters auditioned for The X-Issue as solo acts and had been introduced collectively by Cowell, a choose on the present. With their loyal fan base of “Directioners” they turned probably the most profitable boy bands of all time.

After the group cut up in 2016, Payne launched into a solo profession that did not match the success of One Path. He was additionally open about struggling along with his psychological well being and alcohol amid the pressures of fame.

Prosecutors in Argentina mentioned that Payne had traces of alcohol, cocaine and a prescription antidepressant in his system when he fell to his loss of life from the third-floor balcony of his room on the Casa Sur Resort within the Argentine capital on Oct. 16. They’ve charged three individuals over his loss of life, with “abandonment of an individual adopted by loss of life” and “supplying and facilitating the usage of narcotics.”