Princess Cloe (Sancratosian long name : Cloe Romana Maria de Sancratosia / Canadian name : Chloé Fortin Côté) was born in Montréal, Canada on 1 March 1992. Until 2013, she was living in the suburbs on the south-shore of Montréal, before moving to the city in 2013. She studied political science at Université du Québec à Montréal. While studying, she worked as a tour guide at Montréal’s Olympic Stadium.

Coming out

Cloe made her official coming out as a transgender woman on 15 July, 2015 and has been sporadically engaged in LGBT rights, mostly through open letters to newspapers.

Political activism

Cloe has been politically active, running twice in Quebec general elections and running once for the spokespersonship in her political party.

Cloe has also been an active member of model parliaments in Quebec, namely the Forum Étudiant and the Parlement Étudiant du Québec (PEQ). Over the span of 5 participations, she assumed the positions of Minister of Transportation, of Democratic reform and Chair of the Conseil du trésor, submitting two bills. In 2016, she became the first transgender to participate in the model parliament and in 2019, she had the honour of becoming the first transgender to sit in the seat of the President of the National Assembly of Quebec during a PEQ simulation, the position being awarded to honour former participants.

Also involved in unions, in 2015, she became the first transgender to lead a union strike in the Province of Quebec.

In June 2020, she started working as a communications officer for a pedestrian rights advocacy group in Québec.

Personal life

Cloe quickly became interested in the phenomenon of micronations such as Sealand and Molossia. She owns a 1994 Sealand Half-Dollar which she acquired in 2012.

Enthusiast of modern Canadian history, Cloe has an extensive personal collection of memorabilia from the Montreal 1976 Olympic Games, most notably a gymnastics event ticket signed by famous olympic gold medalist Nadia Comăneci. She also have an extensive collection of items from the defunct Canadian Airlines and a collection of transit tickets from the Société de transport de Montréal. Her less extensive collections include coins, flags and hockey jerseys.

Cloe is an amateur and self-taught artist. She has been interested in many different mediums. Notably, she was involved in stereoscopy and developed a pair of snap-on 3D glasses to change the different filters. From 2018 to 2020, her political artwork was featured on the French canadian-speaking television show Infoman on Radio-Canada.

Cloe once piloted a Cessna 172 airplane on a flight from Mascouche to Mirabel, landing at the then decommissioned Montréal–Mirabel International Airport.