Tearful Harry Styles and One Direction members among first mourners to arrive at Liam Paynes funeral

Liam Payne was laid to rest in a private funeral attended by his former One Direction bandmates on Wednesday.A somber Harry Styles was seen at the memorial service in Amersham, England.Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik and Niall Horan were there as well.Simon Cowell attended the funeral with his fiancée Lauren Silverman.

Cowell, 65, formed One Direction on “The X Factor.”Payne’s girlfriend Kate Cassidy was one of the first people to arrive at the funeral.Her all-black outfit included a coat with fur trim and a turtleneck.She walked into the service with Elizabeth Hurley’s son, Damian Hurley.James Corden also went to the service.Payne’s parents Geoff and Karen were there as well to mourn their late son.

Only family and close friends were invited to the small memorial, per Daily Mail.Payne’s final resting place was a fitting choice for the English singer.The star was born not far away in the city of Wolverhampton, 13 miles northwest of Birmingham in the West Midlands.

Payne was buried two weeks after his father Geoff brought the former One Direction singer’s body back from Argentina, where he passed away on Oct.16 after falling from the third-floor balcony of his Buenos Aires hotel room.

He was 31.Geoff arrived in the Argentine capital two days later and helped police as they carried out an investigation into the star’s death.After an extensive investigation, authorities in Buenos Aires revealed that Payne fractured his skull and died instantly of “very serious injuries.” Officials do not believe his fall was intentional.

ABC News had reported the pop star died with a toxic stew of narcotics in his system, including “pink cocaine” — aka “tusi” — but the prosecutor’s office said Payne only had alcohol, cocaine and an unspecified prescription antidepressant in his system.Police arrested three individuals in connection with Payne’s death, alleging they provided narcotics to the singer.Payne began his rise to fame in 2010 after he a...