Prince cremated in private ceremony
Prince has been cremated in a private ceremony after the music icon died at his home in Minnesota.
The singer’s ashes were carried to a car and taken to their final resting place after the legendary musician was secretly cremated on Friday in a ‘no fuss’ funeral as per his wishes.
The star was found dead at his Minnesota home on Thursday, and his family quickly moved to carry out the simple funeral he demanded in the event of his death.
While fans flocked to his Paisley Park home and studio in Chanhassen, the star’s body had been released to his family at around 1pm on Friday after a four-hour autopsy was completed at the Minnesota medical examiner’s office.
The body arrived at the First Memorial Waterston Chapel by 2pm where just his sister Tyka, her son Prez and another family member were in attendance to say a final goodbye.
The modest service was attended by the singers closest friends and family, who took the stars ashes to his finallresting place after the ceremony.
Maurice Phillips, who is married to Tyka Nelson, Prince’s sister, said that Prince had not slept in six-and-a-half days before he was found dead at his home, as previously reported by Dailymail.com.
“He worked 154 hours straight,” Phillips, 52, told fans who milled around outside Paisley Park, Prince’s compound and recording studio in Chanhassen, southwest of Minneapolis, Saturday.
“I was with him just last weekend,” he added. “He was a good brother-in-law.”
Because Prince is a Jehovah’s Witness he had to have funeral services carried out within a week of his death.
And because of his faith, the singer made it clear to his family that he wanted to ‘quiet service’ and to ‘die with dignity,’ a family friend told the Mirror.
“He had very precise ideas about how he wanted his death to be handled and that didn’t involve a huge funeral but a quiet service.
“He wanted it to be kept to the minimum of fuss. Prince was such figure you don’t need a funeral to remember him by. He wanted to simply disappear with no fuss, no drama, no fanfare. It was just his style.”
