A private memorial service has been held for Carrie Fisher and her mother Debbie Reynolds at their family home in Los Angeles.
Fisher, who was best known for her role as Princess Leia in Star Wars, died last month at the age of 60, a few days after suffering a heart attack on a flight from London to Los Angeles. Singin' in the Rain star Reynolds died a day later, aged 84, from a suspected stroke.
They will be laid to rest later today at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood, the final resting place of a number of celebrities including Bette Davis, Stan Laurel and Liberace.
The chief mourners at the service were Fisher's daughter Billie Lourd, Todd Fisher, Reynolds' son and Fisher's brother; half-sisters Joely Fisher and Tricia Leigh Fisher and Billie's father, Bryan Lourd.
Among the mourners were actors Candice Bergen, Richard Dreyfuss and Gwyneth Paltrow and Star Wars director George Lucas. Billie Lourd delivered a eulogy and there were also eulogies from Fisher's close friends Stephen Fry, Meryl Streep and Tracey Ullman.
"All the tributes circled back to Billie and how much Carrie loved her," a family friend told US celebrity magazine People.
At the service, Streep performed Fisher's favourite song, Happy Days Are Here Again. "By the end, everyone was singing," said the family friend.
Todd Fisher said that shortly before his mother fell ill, she had expressed a wish that her daughter would be buried at the spot where she herself planned to be buried.
He recently spoke about the death of his mother and sister in an interview with ABC News, during which he insisted that Reynolds did not "die of a broken heart" and revealed that in her final moments she "really wanted to be with Carrie and did not want her to be alone".
"Within 15 minutes from that conversation, she faded out. And within 30 minutes, she technically was gone," he said. "We're broken-hearted, those of us that are left behind. We also are happy that they're together. It's horrible, it's beautiful, it's magical they are together, it's beyond words, it's beyond understanding."
When he confirmed news of Reynolds' death he revealed that her last words were about her late daughter.
She said, 'I want to be with Carrie'. And then she was gone.
Earlier this week, Billie Lourd broke her silence to pay tribute to her late mother and grandmother, saying she had "no words" to describe how she felt when they died barely 24 hours apart.
She posted a photograph of the three of them together on Instagram along with a caption thanking the public for their support over the past two weeks.
Lourd is the only child of Fisher from her relationship with talent agent Bryan Lourd, from whom she split in 1994.
"Receiving all of your prayers and kind words over the past week has given me strength during a time I thought strength could not exist," she wrote.
"There are no words to express how much I will miss my Abadaba and my one and only Momby. Your love and support means the world to me."
