It’s good to see the Daily Mail threading a little light into the “Waity Katie” obsessions of some commentators and newspapers, including its sister paper, The Mail on Sunday.

On the website they quote a piece in Hello Magazine, in which friends of Kate Middleton rebut the constant stream of antagonism about Prince William’s girlfriend’s lack of “a job”.

Hello reports that Kate has been working full-time at her parents’ multimillion-pound business, Party Pieces, for several months in a 9-5 role editing catalogues for the mail-order children’s party props and costumes enterprise in Berkshire.

“She is annoyed at the headlines saying she doesn’t work,” according to a friend. “She is actually working full-time, is on the payroll, and plans to continue doing the job.”

The MoS stories about the Queen ordering her and Prince William out to work seem wide of the mark. It’s astonishing the Queen hasn’t made a fuss. She was livid with the BBC over their visual misquote in A Year In The Life Of The Queen, the corporation’s ill-fated, but ultimately rescued, documentary series.

The quoted “Royal aides” are clearly waspish towards Kate Middleton and are psychologically inept at best. You could walk an adult bull elephant through the holes in some of the stories. We’ve long suspected these are a self-selecting set with their own agenda to promote.

With Kate, it may be just a shift of tone here and there, as we’ve pointed out before, but it seems to convey the wrong impression of the Monarch’s wishes.

The Queen has always been reluctant to interfere in her children’s private lives. She’s not going to start now at the age of 82.