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I've heard that Queen Victoria was so revered, or something, was so out of reach anyway, that people didn't feel comfortable using her name, so used Queenie instead. Then after QV's death it kept on being used in the UK and perhaps the colonies, though not so much.

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DH had a (black South African) student once whose given names were Queen Elizabeth. As far as he could tell, she regularly went by both; he found it embarrassing.

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Somewhere in the Anne of Green Gables stories, when she's a university student, she dates a guy who's known as Roy but whose actual name is Royal. I remember being greatly surprised when I read that!