Camilla Townsend points this out in her biography of Pocahontas. The English viewed her as a princess, abeit a "savage" one. John Rolfe met a lot of criticism on the trip to England for marrying above his station in life, especially from no less than James I, that epitome of Divine Right and birthright. Townsend argues that the difference in status between Pocahontas/Matoaka as actually a daughter of lesser importance to Powhatan, and the English viewing her as royal, may have been one of the factors leading her to wed John Rolfe.
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