I knew the Clintons were shameless, but Chelsea's wedding to Marc Mezvinsky takes the biscuit. I'm not talking about the nauseating, showbiz excess of the whole affair – the equivalent of £6,400 was spent on each of the 500 guests, including £7,000 for a vegan and gluten-free cake. Nor am I referring to the fact that the groom's father, former Congressman Ed Mezvinsky, was described by the judge who sentenced him to five years for fraud in 2001 as a "one man crime wave". Not the first time a Clinton has been linked to a convicted felon and undoubtedly not the last.
No, it's the fact that Chelsea and Marc included a poem called 'The Life That I Have' in their wedding vows. In the Daily Mail's account of the wedding, it attributes the verse to Leo Marks and says that it featured in the 1958 film Carve Her Name with Pride about Violette Szabo. True, but that scarcely does justice to its significance. Leo Marks is most famous for having written the script for Peeping Tom, a cult British film directed by Michael Powell, but he was also an exceptionally gifted cryptographer who worked as the Special Operation Executive's head of codes during the Second World War. (To read more, click here.)
