All five living US presidents attend Jimmy Carter's funeral

President Biden, as well as former presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and President-elect Donald Trump are pictured sat together for the funeral of the late former president Jimmy Carter

All five living US presidents have come together to remember the former president Jimmy Carter.

The 39th president, died on December 29 at the age of 100.

The funeral service comes after President Biden declared Thursday a National Day of Mourning.

Supporters and friends were joined by those who once occupied the White House: President Biden as well as former presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and President-elect Donald Trump.

"Character, character, character".

President Biden delivered a eulogy from the pulpit, saying "Jimmy Carter’s friendship taught me, and through his life, taught me, that strength of character is more than title or the power we hold".

Former president Carter will be buried next to his wife Rosalynn Carter, in a plot near the home they built together before his first state Senate campaign in 1962.

Proceedings began this morning as members of the U.S. military carried Carter's casket down the east steps of the US Capitol, where the former President has laid in state, before being transported to Washington National Cathedral.

There was also a 21-gun salute.

In attendance was also Carter's former UN Ambassador, Donald McHenry who told said that history was going to give "a fair weighting of Jimmy Carter's character".

When asked what Carter would have made of President-elect Donald Trump's comments about the Panama Canal, McHenry told ITV News that he "was not a man who did a lot of threatening"

The funeral concludes six days of national rites that begun in Plains, Georgia, the birthplace of Carter in 1924 and where he lived the majority of his life.

Ceremonies to commemorate him then continued in Atlanta and Washington.

Mourners waited several hours in freezing temperatures to file past his flag-draped casket in the rotunda of the U.S. capitol. It remained open to the public from Tuesday afternoon until Thursday.

The late Jimmy Carter became the 39th US president in 1977 aged 52. His reputation was built around his tireless humanitarian work. He earnt a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for helping to ease nuclear tensions in North and South Korea, negotiating cease-fire in Bosnia and Sudan as well as averting a US invasion of Haiti.

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