Bismarck, who spoke of the Coburg dynasty ironically as the "stud farm of Europe" due to their successful marital policy, always called Vicky simply "the Englishwoman". Although she was given a triumphant welcome when she rode through the Brandenburg Gate and Ernst Moritz Arndt, the old poet of the wars of liberation, hoped that "an English spirit will now flow through our land", she remained in Berlin to the end a foreigner. Anti-English circles gave Vicky's English physicians the blame for the difficult forceps delivery of the baby, Prince William, in the year 1859, which caused his left arm to be crippled for the rest of his life. Moreover, her antipathy toward the socio-political realities of Prussia created many enemies for her at court, in the aristocracy, with the military and among the bureaucrats. The fact that many people insinuated that she dominated and influenced her weak husband brought her even further into discredit. Bismarck's unification of the empire took a different course from the way Vicky, a true disciple of her father, had wanted. Yet in the end it was the unexpected longevity of Emperor William I and Frederick III's throat cancer that brought about the tragic failure of Prince Albert's large-scale plans to democratise Germany and make it Britain's closest ally.