Chelsea Clinton to marry longtime boyfriend

Chelsea Clinton, the only child of former US President Bill Clinton and current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is engaged to her long-time boyfriend Marc Mezvinsky - and this time it's official. The couple announced their engagement in an email to friends and family on Friday. "We're sorry for the mass email," they wrote, "but we wanted to wish everyone a belated Happy Thanksgiving! We also wanted to share that we are engaged... Happy Holidays! Chelsea & Marc."
 
The announcement follows widespread but false reports earlier this year that the couple were planning to marry in September on Martha's Vineyard where the Clintons, like the Kennedys and now the Obamas, spend their summers.
 
They wrote in their email: "We didn't get married this past summer despite the stories to the contrary, but we are looking toward next summer and hope you all will be there to celebrate with us."
 
Chelsea, 29, became friends with her husband-to-be at high school in Washington DC, and both attended Stanford University in California. They now live in New York where Mezvinsky, a 31-year-old former Goldman Sachs investment banker, works at a hedge fund. Clinton is studying at Columbia University's School of Public Health.
 
Chelsea Clinton was the last First Child before Malia and Sasha Obama to grow up in the White House and is judged to have survived the experience remarkably well, in light of the scandals that dogged her parents.

Since Bill Clinton left the White House in 2001, Chelsea has generally kept a low-profile, though she did step into the spotlight to campaign for Hillary during her unsuccessful run for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.
 
Mezvinksy is the son of former Pennsylvania Congresswoman Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky and former Iowa Congressman Ed Mezvinsky, both longtime friends of the Clintons. Ed Mezvinsky, who served from 1973 to 1977, was convicted in 2002 of defrauding investors and sentenced to nearly seven years in prison. He was released last year. ·