However in real life, Pocahontas was kidnapped by English colonists at the age of 15 and held for ransom, while being forced to convert to Christianity. When she was 18 she married John Rolfe ...

It is thought she told the settlers her name was Pocahontas (possibly her mother’s name) as she didn’t want to share her real name with ... and then married John Rolfe. He had agonised over ...

The real-life romantic partner of Pocahontas was a tobacco planter named John Rolfe. Unlike the animated character, Pocahontas did leave her tribe to live in London with Rolfe. Unfortunately ...

John Rolfe - and she and Smith sail away to Britain together at the end of the film. History, however, tells a different and darker tale. To start, Pocahontas was just a nickname, meaning "the ...

One of them was John Rolfe, a widowed settler and pioneer planter of a new strain of tobacco. He was besotted by Pocahontas and wrote that she showed a “great appearance of love to me.” ...

She retains the chaste, high-necked Jacobian costume of the engraving (which may have covered the real ... more modest painting. His Pocahontas and John Rolfe resemble those in Chapman's mural ...

During her captivity at Jamestown, Pocahontas falls in love with an English settler, John Rolfe. Was this coincidence or was it strategy? It's hard to know. What we do know is that the marriage ...

By this time, Smith had returned to England. Pocahontas eased relations between Indians and colonists by marrying widower John Rolfe, the founder of English tobacco-growing in Virginia.

When news of John Smith's death reaches America, Pocahontas is devastated. She sets off to London with John Rolfe, to meet with the King of England on a diplomatic mission: to create peace and ...