I must admit, I'm already shivering re: Cromwell's own fate, because his execution was a notoriously ill-handled affair, with several strokes, when his knowledge of "the Book of Henry" failed him.

Oh, of course the class snobery is incredibly real in Cromwell's world, but I still think Mantel is playing the sympathy game a bit with that, i.e. reminding us Cromwell is the underdog who made it to the top, even when he's there and actually a lot of other people are the current underdogs. Every author does that, it's not a criticism on my part, I just noticed. I also noticed that unless I managed to skip a page, she avoided the story that one of the reasons for the fallout between Anne and Cromwell was that Cromwell enriched himself personally from the dissolution of the monasteries and Anne took him to task for that. It's not something fitting her conception of Anne and Cromwell, and so it's not there. (As said story first shows up in the time of Elizabeth where of course authors suddenly had reason not to write ill of her mother anymore, it might be invented, but still: it exists.)