Watch Celine Dion Attends Late Husband Rene Angelil's Funeral

The "My Heart Will Go On" singer is alongside her 3 children and thousands of fans as she says farewell to the love of her life. Get the touching details.MONTREAL
—The entertainment world said goodbye to René Angélil, the savvy but soft-spoken business mind behind the musical empire of his wife, Céline Dion.

But for Dion, and Angélil’s six children, Friday’s elaborately planned funeral service highlighted the life of an affectionate husband and father, an inveterate gambler and food lover. One who, according to his eldest son Patrick, taught his children to say “please” and “thank you,” to look both ways when crossing the road, and to double down in Black Jack if you draw a five or a six.
Despite Angélil’s great public success managing Dion’s career over more than three decades, it was his private, personal legacy on display for a largely Québécois audience of friends, family, entertainers, athletes, politicians and other dignitaries who gathered at Montreal’s Notre-Dame Basilica.
All eyes were on Dion, just as they have been since Angélil died Jan. 14 of throat cancer, but it was the couple’s son, René-Charles, who turns 15 on Monday, who drove home for mourners the great private tragedy in Angélil’s death.
“Fifteen years is not a long time for a son to get to know his father,” René-Charles said in English to about 2,000 people in attendance.
Addressing his father’s polished black casket, he said: “You had a busy life but we were communicating through golf, hockey, poker and smoked meat and a lot of other wonderful food, bonding more and more as time went by.”
People gather at Montreal's Notre-Dame Basilica Friday to say goodbye to Rene Angelil, late husband of Celine Dion, who died of throat cancer last week at the age

People gather at Montreal's Notre-Dame Basilica Friday to say goodbye to Rene Angelil, late husband of Celine Dion, who died of throat cancer last week at the age of 73.

The boy also promised to pass his own memories of Angélil, as well as the lessons he had learned, to his two younger brothers, five-year-old twins Eddy and Nelson.
“I promise you that we’re all going to live up to your standards,” René-Charles said. “Je t’aime, papa.”
Dion arrives with her children, twins Eddy and Nelson, Rene-Charles and her mother Therese.
Dion arrives with her children, twins Eddy and Nelson, Rene-Charles and her mother Therese.thestar,youtube