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Claim of fairy alone, not one seen as “queenly” (8)

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I believe the answer is:

imperial

'queenly' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'claim of fairy alone not one' is the wordplay.
'claim of fairy' becomes 'imperia' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'alone' becomes 'lone' (synonyms).
'not' suggests deleting specific letters.
'lone' with 'one' removed is 'l'.
'imperia'+'l'='IMPERIAL'

'seen as' is the link.

(Other definitions for imperial that I've seen before include "Majestic - wine bottle" , "Magnificent; small pointed beard" , "Related to empire" , "Sovereign - old Russian gold coin - type of beard" , "I prime Al to describe the rule of great territories" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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