Idk if HilMans intended for Henry and Jane’s relationship to be paternal but it was. So much of the way the author elucidated his affection for her was about perceived physical and emotional exclusivity which you would typically associate with a parent-child relationship. No one else has ever so much as kissed her cheek, she pays no other man as much attention as she pays him, she treats everything he does like it’s normal because she presumably just trusts him that much. He thinks she’s stupid. That doesn’t sound like a husband and a wife that sounds like a man and his daughter. The version of Jane invented for the relationship is childlike. Especially since Wolf Hall accepts the anachronistic account of Jane’s father sleeping with his daughter in law as true. Creepy, but not in a bad way!
