Washington - (Hybrid Tea Rose News): Buried under the fragrant commemorative floribunda cultivars the Laura Bush Rose and the Rose Kennedy Rose lies the truth of those irrascible Clinton years in orifice.
And this afternoon the doppelganger strolling up the aisle on her 'father's' arm at Astor Courts, Rhinebeck is having the time of her extraordinarily brazen, priviledged life.
The 31st July wedding day sees Pappy Bill fork out a reported $3 million for the nuptial extravaganza with Little Miss C holding the whip-hand in the 'austerity-drive' bash.
Meanwhile ten feet under the White House Rose Garden the corpse of the real Chelsea is slowly decomposing beneath the beautiful coral-colored spicy-perfumed cultivars.
Giving off heady tones in the dazzling sunshine the shrubs were planted to deflect the aroma of rotting organic matter - such as compost or other fertiliser material.
So who wielded the shovel that grim day in 1993 when Ms Clinton was despatched to permanent never-never land?
"The jury's still out on that one," LA FagHagSlagMag's celebwatch correspondent commeted today.
"Chances are, of course, it was Bill."