One of the more frustrating aspects of doing the family history is, as you said, the habit of some families to name a succeeding child after one that died.
Often, if a child was born and died early in the year, it was possible for another one to be born within the same year, and given the same name, so that's when it gets real tricky.
I don't know about anyplace else, but the French Canadians tended to use "Marie" as a sort of first name for most, or all, of the girls in the family. For example, a great grandfather's mom was one of three sisters who all had names starting with "Marie" with another name after it.
I don't have any connections to royalty unless you want to count some of the females being "Filles du Roi"...or "The King's Daughters" 
They're not really King's daughters, but their story is interesting nonetheless.
So, one of the really cool things I managed to do was to trace a line all the way back to the very first ancestor to arrive in Canada in the 1600s...Pierre Auclair.
It's fascinating and the hours spent looking for ancestors fly by so quickly.
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