As if it were not enough that a plague of locusts threatened some 300,000 of his subjects with starvation, Libya’s 65-year-old King Idris himself was plagued with family troubles. In the first ...

Until the overthrow of King Idris last September, Libya was an oasis of Western opportunity between Egypt and Algeria. But in the four months since a group of young army officers seized power ...

Libya was a monarchy from 1951 to 1969, when then-Captain Gadhafi took power in a military coup. King Idris, the first and only king of Libya, had sided with the Allies during their campaign ...

The United Libyan Kingdom was formed on 24 December 1951 under King Idris. But after Col Muammar ... "Today, we begin the building of Libya as our forefathers have done," Prime Minister Abdurrahim ...

In 2009 when Fatima Ahmed al-Sharif, the last queen of Libya and widow of King Idris, passed away, she was in exile with her family in Egypt. Her husband, Idris, had died years earlier in 1983.

Fyfe Robertson reported from the mountains of Cyrenaica in Libya on a British woman who looked after the royal Cyrenaican bees of the King of Libya. King Idris employed Miss Olive Brittan as the ...

The King of the Libyans – and not of Libya, since he was an elected king – made his triumphal entry into Tripoli. Who was King Idris? A correspondent of Le Monde described him in the 3 September 1969 ...

No family members of deposed King Idris, who were forced into exile in 1969, were in Libya for the ceremony. Idris died in Cairo in 1983. Libya was occupied for decades by various nations ...

1951 - Libya becomes independent under King Idris. 1956 - Development of Libya's oil reserves starts. 1969 - Muammar Gaddafi, deposes King Idris. 1971 - National referendum approves proposed ...