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The blackamoor brooch, of a Black man wearing a turban, was deemed racially insensitive by critics.

The case rests on two possibilities: that Beethoven’s Flemish ancestors married Spanish “blackamoors” of African descent, or that Beethoven’s mother had an affair.

I was also stopped short by blackamoor statues, by caricatured sculptures of naked brown-skinned women in a jewelry-store window, by young men haunting narrow alleys, hats upturned for a euro or two.

Bad tights and the Windsors go together like the older royals and blackamoor brooches: long after everyone else consigned them to the dustbin of shame, the royals consider them the crucial finishing touch.

They’ve been accused of racially insensitive references in their work, such as describing gladiator-style sandals as “slave sandals” and featuring Moorish — or “blackamoor” — imagery in a ready-to-wear collection.