(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/121203-mette-marit-jsw-%20840a.photoblog600.jpg)Ulet Ifansasti / Getty Images fileCrown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway visit Borobudur temple in Magelang Regency, Indonesia, on Nov. 28.By ReutersOSLO, Norway -- Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway secretly traveled to India in order to care for infant twins born to the surrogate mother of a gay palace employee unable to get a travel visa, the palace said Monday.
Armed with a diplomatic passport that granted her immediate access, the future queen jumped on a plane in late October when the employee, who is also a friend, and his husband were unable to travel to care for their newborns.
"For me, this is about two babies lying alone in a New Delhi hospital," Mette-Marit said in a statement. "I was able to travel and wanted to do what I could."
She did not alert Indian authorities and spent several days with the babies at the Manav Medicare Center, where staff assumed the wife of Crown Prince Haakon of Norway was a nanny.
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