Channel Girl Margaret Feature is Wife No. 2. - Abdel Moneim Abdou in Folkestone ***** night as he tells his story. Miss Margaret Feater, the 22-year-old channel swimmer, revealed yesterday that she was secretly married in 1953 and that she has a 17-month-old daughter. Her husband is Abdel Moneim Abdou, the Egyptian channel swimmer, who is 30. In Folkestone last night he admitted that he had another wife in Cairo. At her home in Scarborough, Margaret said that she knew Abdel was already married. August 26, 1955.