In 1995, Disney introduced children everywhere to a Native American princess married 400 years ago today - Pocahontas ... her short life, which ended in tragedy, with John Rolfe - the man Disney ...
In Disney’s cartoon version of the story (and elsewhere), Pocahontas is shown to be involved romantically with an Englishman called Captain John Smith. He was real, but not her boyfriend.
But there were other items, too, that could vastly improve their quality of life ... captivity at Jamestown, Pocahontas falls in love with an English settler, John Rolfe. Was this coincidence ...