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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/punk-pair-inspire-royal-couple-art.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Street artist Rich Simmons puts the final touches to a mural created on the Southbank, London, in support of the upcoming royal wedding" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-punk-pair-inspire-royal-couple-art.jpg" alt="Street artist Rich Simmons puts the final touches to a mural created on the Southbank, London, in support of the upcoming royal wedding"/></a></p>
<p>Prince William and Kate Middleton have been transformed into the infamous punk couple Sid and Nancy in the latest piece of artwork inspired by the royal wedding.</p>
<p>Artist Rich Simmons, 24, a Prince&#8217;s Trust ambassador, has created a mural on London&#8217;s Southbank in honour of the pair who will wed in April.</p>
<p>In the artwork William and his fiancee both wear leather jackets, and Kate is in a miniskirt while holding a cigarette and the prince sports a dog collar against the backdrop of the union flag.</p>
<p>Above the couple&#8217;s head are the words &#8220;FUTURE ***KING&#8221;.</p>
<p>The artist took his inspiration from the photograph of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen by 1970s photographer Jamie Reid.</p>
<p>Simmons, originally from Peterborough but now living in London, spent 50 hours creating the stencils for the piece then a further five hours spraying it onto an official graffiti wall this afternoon.</p>
<p>He received a Prince&#8217;s Trust grant to help start his art therapy organisation which works with young people and says he still supports and helps to raise funds for the Trust.</p>
<p>The artist said: &#8220;Hopefully they will like it. I wanted to do something that would make William and Kate accessible.</p>
<p>&#8220;They are the modern breed of royals and they&#8217;re not like the others, they are more down to earth &#8211; they&#8217;re not the snooty types.&#8221;</p>
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