Alderete si spostò quindi a Londra, dove incontrò il re ottenendo da lui il governatorato a vita per conto di Valdivia. ###>==In Europe==In late 1552, Pedro de Valdivia dispatched Alderete to negotiate the confirmation of his governorship with Charles V, but after he arrived back to Spain he discovered that the Emperor had transferred the suzerainty of the Kingdom of Chile to his son Philip II, who was at the time living in England.