Claim: Pocahontas was in the attendance of a festive form of courtly entertainment at Whitehall Palace.
Evidence: She became something of a celebrity , was elegantly fêted , and attended a masque at Whitehall Palace.
The masque was a form of festive courtly entertainment that flourished in 16th - and early 17th-century Europe , though it was developed earlier in Italy , in forms including the intermedio -LRB- a public version of the masque was the pageant -RRB-.