New York fashionista Amanda Brooks moves to Britain help former New International boss Rebekah Brooks The big gamble After the King of Bahrain's presence at the Queen's Sovereign Monarchs" lunch led to criticism from human rights" campaigners, his influence will be felt at the Diamond Jubilee celebrations at Epsom on Saturday. Camelot, the bookies" favourite at the Investec Epsom Derby, which the Queen will attend, was bred by the King of Bahrain's son, Sheikh Abdulla Bin Isa Al-Khalifa. The horse is now owned by John Magnier. Heartbreak ahead for Sir Derek Jacobi They say keep your work and private life separate but Sir Derek Jacobi has agreed to be directed by his civil partner, Richard Clifford, for the first time in 16 years. He will star in a production of George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House in Chichester. "It's great so far, but we haven't started rehearsing yet," says Jacobi, who did not apply. God, no, I didn't have to audition. Richard just asked me. Swinging sixties Wendy Perriam, the author who once won the Literary Review's Bad Sex Award, is undeterred from depicting "erotic" scenes. "The book that I am writing now will absolutely horrify youngsters, I imagine," she tells Mandrake at the Orange Prize ceremony. It's all about two sixtysomethings who have a steaming sexual affair. They do it outside and in all sorts of places. Philip Roth always seems to have these 70-year-old incontinent geriatrics, who, somehow, have these beautiful young women just throwing themselves at him. I thought, 'If he can do that, why shouldn't I do something that could actually happen?" " She adds: "I know that the thought of senior citizens having sex is utterly mortifying to young people, but it does happen."