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Sarah Ferguson appears to be sending a subtle but direct message through her shoes at a book signing event for her 2021 novel, Her Heart for a Compass<\/em><\/u><\/a>, in London this week. Her dark blue velvet loafers were embroidered with the royal family\u2019s unofficial motto<\/u><\/a>, \u201cNever complain, never explain.\u201d<\/p>\n However, the Duchess of York\u2019s shoes aren\u2019t new. People<\/em><\/u><\/a> notes that Ferguson wore them previously in 2022 for a night out in London. \u201cThere has been a long tradition in the British royal family of riding criticism out and keeping your head down and taking the long view,\u201d royal biographer Penny Junor previously told the magazine. \u201cCrises come and go, and people get criticized\u2014often for five minutes by the media, who then move on.\u201d<\/p>\n Ferguson appears to be making a sartorial statement just as a new royal biography is about to be published. Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York<\/em><\/u><\/a> by Andrew Lownie is poised to be a bombshell when it drops on August 14, with numerous outlets already publishing explosive claims made in the book. It reportedly paints a damning picture of Prince Andrew, depicting him as arrogant, unfaithful, and vulgar, and detailing multiple alleged instances of him being unkind to staff.<\/p>\n Lownie is a seasoned biographer with previous books about the Mountbattens<\/u><\/a> and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. He is no stranger to fighting legal battles, having launched a case<\/u><\/a> to get Mountbattens\u2019 diaries and correspondence made public.<\/p>\n