The Princess and The Passports – One Incredible Act of Kindness for a Friend

It's something you might expect from the princess in a Disney movie, but this Royal is a real-life heroine.

Crown Princess of Norway, Princess Mette-Marit travelled to India secretly to care for infant twins born to a surrogate mother for a gay palace employee, the palace stated yesterday. 

In a plot worthy of a Hollywood script, and no doubt there will be a movie to follow, Mette-Marit travelled in late October armed with a diplomatic passport that granted her immediate access to India when the palace employee, a friend of the Princess, was unable to get a travel visa.

In a statement, the Princess said: "For me, this is about two babies lying alone in a New Delhi hospital… I was able to travel and wanted to do what I could."

Crown Princess Mette Marit Of Norway pictured with her husband Crown Prince Haakon

According to Yahoo Mette-Marit travelled without alerting Indian authorities and spent several days with the infants at the Manav Medicare Centre, where staff assumed the wife of Norway's Crown Prince Haakon was a nanny.

The fathers eventually received a visa and brought their babies back to Norway late last month.

The revelations are causing controversy in Norway, where surrogacy is hotly debated, even though same sex partnerships have been legal since 1993 and same sex marriage has been legal since 2009, but the Princess has insisted the decision to act came down to helping a friend, saying; "Sometimes life presents you with situations with few good solutions. This was one of those”.