However in real life, Pocahontas was kidnapped ... Disney’s version of Pocahontas centres John Smith, the man Pocahontas supposedly fell in love with. However in reality, Smith came to her ...

People are only just learning a Disney villain was based on a real person - and died one of the most horrific deaths ever.

The real-life John Smith was documented as one of the settlers to Virginia who was befriended by Pocahontas. She reportedly went to their settlement before the conflict and helped bring food to ...

In Disney's recent version of the Pocahontas story, as in countless iterations before it, John Smith appears as a dashing romantic hero, smitten by the Indian "princess." Their relationship ...

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.

This engraving of Pocahontas ... of her real life come from her own words. Historians have pieced together her life from the accounts of others, most notably her friend, Capt. John Smith, whose ...

She retains the chaste, high-necked Jacobian costume of the engraving (which may have covered the real ... John Smith. Most historians doubt that a full-fledged romance ever existed between ...

The famous scene in which "Pocahontas" intervenes when her father goes to kill "John Smith" was not real. Both the Englishman and her did exist and met, although she was 12 years old. Her name was ...