premise: Pocahontas was in the attendance of a festive form of courtly entertainment at Whitehall Palace.
hypothesis: 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 ( a public version of the masque was the pageant ) . Pocahontas . She became something of a celebrity , was elegantly fêted , and attended a masque at Whitehall Palace .