纪念币上的王子十分“青春”

Prince William and fiancée Kate Middleton - whose birth name is really Catherine - have been forced to change the design of their wedding souvenir plates, mugs and trinket boxes to avoid crude jokes.

Commemorative items were going to display the initials of the couple as WC, before designers spotted the gaffe and switched them.

'When the collection was being designed they immediately noticed the problem,' a source at the Palace tells The Sun.

'If they followed tradition with the man's name first it would have been an embarassing royal flush.'

Princess-to-be Kate, 29, will now be the first royal bride ever to have her initial featured above the groom's on the official souvenir china.

The English fine bone china plates, tankards and pillboxes will now feature the initials CW, on a duck-egg blue background, surrounded by the words: 'To celebrate the Marriage of Prince William of Wales and Catherine Middleton.'

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                             威廉顶上的真相                          威廉（William）+  凯特（Catherine）

【相关中文报道】

据英国每日邮报报道，近日，已有200年历史的伯明翰造币厂，发行了威廉和凯特大婚的纪念币。而头发浓密、看上去只有18岁少年模样的王子头像，与威廉几近谢顶的本尊，相距甚远。

纪念币上刻有“庆祝威廉王子殿下和凯瑟琳·米德尔顿(Catherine Middleton)的婚礼”，以及新人头像。造币局称，画家从一些图像得到灵感，并创作出了他们认为“非常精准”的肖像。

而当工作人员意识到这对新人名字缩写是“WC”(厕所的英文缩写)后，纪念币背面的标示被重新修改。为了避免尴尬，凯特(Catherine)名字的首字母被放置于未婚夫的上面。

造币厂希望能售出10万枚纪念币。本周三开始，人们花5英镑，就能得到。

（摘自中国新闻网）