![In Glarus in the middle of the 20th century, you could get your hair cut by a real princess.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/titelbild-3-300x225.jpg)
In the hairdressing salon of the Turkish princess
The last representative of the Ottoman Empire was Rachid Osman. He spent his twilight years in a small village in Glarus. His wife Rosa Osman-Keller earned a living as a village hairdresser to support herself and her once fabulously wealthy husband.
![The hotel Baur au Lac on a postcard dating from 1910.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/baur-au-lac-300x195.jpg)
![Rachid Osman (third from right) with members of the Turkish imperial family.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/kaiserliche-familie-e1612850743153-300x167.jpg)
On an equal footing with Europe’s powerful figures
![Rosa with Rachid Osman in Nice: behind them are Rachid’s two daughters.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/rosa-und-rachid-e1611578556723-225x300.jpg)
A life straight out of a movie
![Prince Rachid Osman in Obstalden, posing with his grandson Pierre and a cigarette.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/rachid-schweiz-200x300.jpg)
![Rosa Osman-Keller in 1979: she lived modestly in Obstalden.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/rosa-schweiz-e1611576789981-225x300.jpg)
![The Princess in Obstalden: Rosa Osman-Keller in her two-room apartment in 1979.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/rosa-si-277x300.jpg)
![Prince or diplomat, registration with the police was mandatory. The authorities were not amused.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/osman-filzbach-228x300.jpg)