Disney age up Pocahontas because they knew audiences would view the romance as inappropriate if they didn’t. What would John Rolfe’s contermpories (IE middle class English people in 1610s) have thought about the fact he (supposedly) met & fell in love with his wife when she was only 11?

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I think you might be conflating two events and two Johns--she met John Smith at 11, but Disney likely exaggerated the romantic angle of that meeting. She met And married John Rolfe around age 17, which would not have been unusual for a woman in that time.