Why fans thought the royal family's Twitter account had been 'hacked'

Twitter users had a meltdown Wednesday night, thinking the royal family’s social media account may have fallen into the hands of hackers. Another popular opinion was that perhaps 97-year-old Prince Philip had been given control of the account and had gone rogue for a few hours.

The reason for the suspicions was a series of random questions posted to the royal family’s official Twitter account, which left fans very confused.

Royal fans were understandably thrown by the strange line of questioning, with many wondering why the account was posting it. But the questions turned out to be part of an earlier Twitter thread, which once discovered, explained what was going on.

The questions were actually part of an exam that nine pioneering women took at the University of London back in 1869.

But most people had just seen the questions without the context.

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