Very cool, if true

If they include the right to legislate in perpetuity, sure, but that's been largely removed. Now it's just a handle, the same way that people changing their name of their own volition - which this is also, as people with titles aren't required to use them - is.

And this wasn't a protest against hereditary titles in general, but against sharing the name of Edinburgh without their consent. Did they protest against the previous Duke of Edinburgh? For that matter, did the county council of Derbyshire protest against the reprehensible John Derbyshire?