Asthall Manor Park. The youngest of the Mitford sisters Deborah, later Duchess of Devonshire, was born at Asthall in 1920. Her sister Diana had an appendectomy on the spare-bedroom table. The Mitfords were great socialites, and Asthall hosted frequent hunting and shooting weekend parties, regular guests included Clementine Churchill, Frederick Lindemann and Walter Sickert. Nancy Mitford's fictional Alconleigh in "The Pursuit of Love" is based largely on Asthall, and family life there is described in Jessica Mitford's autobiographical "Hons and Rebels". Redesdale had never planned to make Asthall Manor a permanent home, and in 1926 the family moved into nearby Swinbrook House
Sisters of the Holy Family (Louisiana) orphans and taught slaves at a time under Louisiana law when educating slaves was illegal. The Sisters of the Holy Family is a congregation of pontifical right. The motherhouse is in New Orleans. As of 2015 its members numbered 96 sisters. The Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family have maintained their original ministries of educating youth and caring for the aged, and the poor. The Sisters have missions in Louisiana, Texas, California, Washington, D.C., and Belize, Central America. In August 2015, actress Vanessa Williams, who produced the 2000 television movie "The Courage to Love", about Henriette Delille, was