Talk:Disney Princess/@comment-9440129-20130824194407/@comment-1416077-20130825033013

Pocahontas in indeed a princess by birth; her father Powhatan was what would be later called "Paramount Chief" of the Powhatan Nation (a collection of chiefdoms); according to historical accounts, the word "Chief" is used instead of "King" since A) only the British monarch could be a King in the British Empire, B) Chiefs were the equivalent of Kings in peerage and C) the Crown considered the Powhatan Tribes to be part of the Crown.

Ergo, Pocahontas, daughter of Paramount Chief (i.e. King) Powhatan, is a royal princess by birth and so recognized by the British Crown.